Annals of a Sportsman (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Annals of a SportsmanRee-its d'un C/uzsseur are filled bear principally upon the social state, the manners, and the appearance of the Russian peasant. The author has rarely revealed to us the recesses of the conscience. It is in describing the habits and actions of his personages that be generally gives us the bounds of the feelings and desires that animate them. This method assuredly is not new - above all in Russia: it has existed there since Gogol, and is spread through their literature, but I truly believe that in this department M. Turgénieff has no rival, even among us. Nothing equals the eloquence of his silence: a look, a sigh, the slightest gesture, says more under his pen than any analysis. We all know that the ordi na? Danger of writers who walk in this path is monotony an vulgarity. M. Turgéniefi has known how to avoid this, and that too without much effort, he has been kept from it by the nature of his subject, the Russian still being essentially poetic, and probably also from the happy disposi tion of his mind, which likes above all things distinction without affectation. But where he especially excels is in the picturesque description of the country, he knows how to give with marvellous exactitude the most imperceptible movements, and even the ¿eeting traits that unexpectedly characterize the mobile and expressive physiognomy of nature. Nothing is beyond him: he depicts to us, with a precision really surprising, the rustling of the forest, the dis tant murmur of a cascade, the color and Changing form of the clouds, the pla of a sunbeam that suddenly lights up the plain, and, as Nlature is always attractive, all these details, so far from wearying the reader, have an infinite charm. A great deal has been written of late against the literary course that the author has followed in this work. After reading the Rece'ls d'un C/zasseur, it will be apparent this course could be fatal only to mediocrity.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.