Иван Тургенев и проблемы интерпретации
Ivan Turgenev and Problems of Interpretation

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with problems of interpretation according to I. Turgenev’s creative activity in two aspects. The first one connects with writer’s assumptions about equal literary translation and his opinion about “eternal” images and plots existing in national and world literatures. The second aspect raises the question of admissible boundaries of reader and investigator’s interpretations of Turgenev’s texts. These two aspects are closely connected, first of all in Turgenev’s consciousness. The writer considered the European literature as a chain of repetitions of “eternal” patterns and images. Also he was sure in essential sign of indeed grate national artist, who could be able to speak originally well-known things. And this originality depends upon the artist’s personality. Regarding literature as an eternal and common European process Turgenev saw in creative individuality a source of originality and unique.

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