Free post: Rudin

Hi everyone:

Today, we should write about free topic. I’m not the most creative person, so I think is good idea talk to you about a book that has a profound impact on me.

When I am fifteen-year-old girl, in summer vacations I read a Russian novel, its name is Rudin, the first novel written by Iván Turgueniév. Story is in the middle nineteen-century in the Russian country, with a medieval landowner system that was against the interests of peasants. It talks about superfluous life and inability to act, and is a love story where young but intellectual and self-conscious woman is contrasted with the main hero.

In a country house lived Lasunskaya family, with Daria Mikhailovna (the widow) and her twelve-year-old son and Natasha, her seventeen-year-old daughter. Rudin is the Dimitri’s last name, a well-educated, intellectual and extremely eloquent nobleman that has economics problems and depends on others for his livings.  His childhood was poor, and his mother had to spent all the money she had on him and that’s the way that Dimitri went to university, in Moscow and then in Berlin. He arrived at Lasunskaya house because he met Daria Mikhailovna in a Moscow hall, where she is considered like a wealthy and distinguished lady, but rather eccentric woman.

Natasha is observant, well-read and intelligent, but also quite secretive. While her mother thinks of her as a good-natured and well-mannered girl, she’s not of a high opinion about her intelligence, and quite wrongly. She also thinks Natasha is “cold”, emotionless, but in the throughout the story, we are witness that her feelings were strong and deep, but reserved, she seldom even sighed and only grew slightly pale when anything distressed her. She engages in intellectual conversations with Rudin, about how old love is replaced by new one. In that way, Rudin fell in love with Natasha, and Natasha fell in love with Rudin.

However, Daria Mikhailovna disapproved this romance, and offered Rudin the opportunity to go away and she wouldn’t report him as a crime (Natasha is underage). So, he left Lasunskaya house only left a letter to Natasha, who wants to go out with Dimitri: he doesn’t want and go abroad.

Last thing we read s about an old man that die in a barricade, in a French Revolution of 1848.