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Name: Tatiana Larina and Turgenev’s Heroes – Mental Space, Everyday Life, Appearance and Fate

Authors: Vladimir K. Vasiliev

Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation

Abstract:

The analytics realized in this work allows us to question the established academic and school interpretation of Tatiana Larina as a wholly ideal character; it is more appropriate to speak of the presence of “two Tatianas” in the novel. The character of the young sentimental-romantic Larina is actually incompatible with her ideal Christian image in Chapter 8. In his discovery of a new for Russian life sociopsychotype (“Turgenev’s”) of woman, Ivan Sergeevich relies on the description of the young Larina, on the unrealized plot “Tatiana + Eugene”, in which “misfortune”, “ruin” and “abyss” are the outcome of the heroine's fate. Ivan Sergeevich also uses Lermontov's psychological discoveries in the portrayal of “advanced” heroes. The article proposes criteria for distinguishing the type of “Turgenev’s girl”. In connection with the hero, this type is considered on the material of Turgenev's novels “Correspondence”, “Diary of a Superfluous Man”, “Two Friends”, the story “Hamlet of Shchigrovsky Uezd”, as well as the novels “Rudin”, “On the Eve”, “Fathers and Children” and “Nov”. The writer uses a number of techniques that indicate that he directly continues the Pushkin-Lermontov tradition. Ivan Sergeevich’s innovation lies in the fact that the “Turgenev girl” is presented by him as a synonym for the “superfluous” and then the “new” man. Only in the complementary pairing is the semantics of their mentality and the unconscious life strategy determined by it revealed. Both are described by Turgenev in the aspect of psychopathology and metaphysical tragic conflict of “advanced” heroes with the laws of the universe, nature and God. Hence the degradation of everyday life, the gradual distortion of the characters’ appearance, and the stability of the motifs of “lies”, “misfortune”, “guilt”, “punishment”, “abyss” and the uniform negative finales of their fates. In general, Turgenev’s contribution to the development of the preceding literary tradition represents a prognostication that defined the mental problems of man and society of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Keywords: the works of A. S. Pushkin, the works of M. Yu. Lermontov, the works of I. S. Tur- genev, “Turgenev’s girl”, “superfluous” and “new man”, tragic

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