A Month in the Country (Friel)

By Ivan Turgenev and Iwan Turgenjew

Book Overview

In the introduction, Brian Friel identifies the novelty of Turgenev's drama "where psychological and poetic elements create a theatre of moods and where the action resides in internal emotion and secret turmoil". His lively, comic play describes the course of a passionately eventful summer month in which Natalya, luminous, anguished and possessed by love, is left to recover a measure of happiness after her turbulent disquiet.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822213427
• ISBN13: 9780822213420
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Concord Theatricals
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Turgenev's skill shines through

This is not a dramatic masterpiece, but anyone who appreciates Turgenev will benefit from it. I was motivated to read this play in preparation for its performance by the United Players of Vancouver next month.

Turgenev's greatest play

A reviewer before me said Turgenev came in the footsteps of the other great Russians. He might have been after Gogol, whom was the first master of fiction to turn to realism, but he was basically a frontrunner of both Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky (and Chekhov). At Gogol's death in 1852 Turgenev wrote an eulogy on Gogol and published the short-story cycle "A Sportsman's Sketches", and was banished to his estate. After this he went abroad and spent most of his time in Paris, where he more than anybody made Russian literature known to the outside world. His greatest novels were "A Nest of Gentlefolk", "On the Eve" and of course "Fathers and Sons". "A Month in the Country" is a pleasant and amusing play of the day, and his very best. One that later also highly inspired Chekhov. Further reading recommended: "The Essential Turgenev".

Russian+19th century=good

In the footsteps of other such amazing Russian authors comes Turgenev, and his wonderfully written play 'A Month in the Country.' If you love Russian literature of this time period, and you like Love triangles, and plays, then this story can not go wrong.