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Phillip Lopate for Leonard's 1st Underread Book Club, Turgenev’s “Virgin Soil.” (July 31, 2018)
On Tuesday's "Leonard Lopate at Large," critic, essayist, fiction writer, poet and professor of writing at Columbia University Phillip Lopate (who also happens to be Leonard's brother) joins us for the premiere installment of our Underread Book Club with a discussion of Ivan Turgenev’s late masterpiece “Virgin Soil.” When it was published in 1877, "Virgin Soil" made Turgenev world famous; a month after it was published 52 young men and women were arrested in Russia on charges of revolutionary conspiracy and a shocked public in France, Britain and America turned to the novel for enlightenment. Its effect on American readers was enormous. Turgenev’s 1860s Russian radicals may remind you of 1960s American radicals and the political discussions often sound like the arguments being made today.
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On Tuesday's "Leonard Lopate at Large," critic, essayist, fiction writer, poet and professor of writing at Columbia University Phillip Lopate (who also happens to be Leonard's brother) joins us for the premiere installment of our Underread Book Club with a discussion of Ivan Turgenev’s late masterpiece “Virgin Soil.” When it was published in 1877, "Virgin Soil" made Turgenev world famous; a month after it was published 52 young men and women were arrested in Russia on charges of revolutionary conspiracy and a shocked public in France, Britain and America turned to the novel for enlightenment. Its effect on American readers was enormous. Turgenev’s 1860s Russian radicals may remind you of 1960s American radicals and the political discussions often sound like the arguments being made today.