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Refreshing and melancholic, just how i like it…i loved the way Turgenev unfolded the story by showing not telling - not all the events were pedestrianly narrated like you see in more modern books. I think i have been accustomed recently to hang on to every single detail in texts, waiting for them to to foreshadow or signify something larger later on, but Turgenev simply used his character description to lay out complex yet universal human emotions without needing to give a reason why or be psychological about it. The reader can just grasp the character’s nature there and then. A doomed love story set on the eve of ‘reform�, or the Crimean War, certainly has political undertones that have parallels to today�

Also loved the short chapter structure and looking forward to reading more Turgenev.