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Finding the Way to Bezhin Meadow: Turgenev's Intimations of Mortality
1977
Slavic Review: Interdisciplinary Quarterly of Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies
When "Bezhin Meadow" first appeared in Sovremennik in 1851, Turgenev's friend Feoktistov wrote to him that while the story had "produced an enormous effect on the public in Moscow," he found it lacked a "general impression," a "general thread," that would unify its fragmentary parts and give the reader a clue to its general significance. Well might Feoktistov have been puzzled, for the censor had omitted the story's ending! The ending was soon available to the reader in the edition of A
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