Volume 24, Number 14 · September 15, 1977

Anti-Barbarian

By Conor Cruise O'Brien
The Gentle Barbarian: The Life and Work of Turgenev
by V.S. Pritchett

Random House, 243 pp., $10.00

'There has not yet been a definitive biography of Turgenev in any language,' writes Mr. Pritchett in a short prefatory note.



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