AW: [SEELANGS] Turgenev's "First Love" and its rewritings

[FIEGUTH Rolf]

Szanowna Pani,

I vaguely remember some novella or novel of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach which even quotes the name of Turgenev while telling the story of a young boy's first love. Unfortunately, I did not find it back in this moment  Maybe some SEELANGer has better memory?
Here are three references:

Ingeborg Geserick, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach und Ivan Turgenev, in: Zeitschrift für Slawistik 3, 1958, 43-64

Ziegengeist, Gerhard (Hg.), I.S. Turgenev und Deutschland.  Materialien u. Untersuchungen. Hrsg. v. Gerhard Ziegengeist. Bd. 1- - Berlin: Akad.-Verl. 1965-

Klaus Dornacher, Die¬ Evolution des deutschen Turgenev-Bildes im 19.Jahrhundert |eine Untersuchung zur Rezeption und Funktion russischer Literatur in Deutschland
, Potsdam, Pädag. Hochsch., Diss. B, 1980

All three are GDR products. Creating a  "socialist German national culture" meant inter alia stressing the links with Russian and Slavic cultures. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, excellent Austrian writer and of half Czech origin somehow fitted into this conception, despite her aristocratic background; she is generally renowned as a creative reader of Turgenev (as is Theodor Fontane!).

Best wishes,

Rolf Fieguth


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Dear Colleagues,
I am looking for rewritings of Ivan Turgenev's 1860 story "First Love" by Russian or Western writers of any century. By "rewriting," I mean not just any intertextual connection but a story that fairly closely follows the plot and theme of Turgenev's prototype (or significant aspects of either).  Typically (though not always), these retellings use Turgenev's title.  I am aware of Chekhov's ("Volodia," draft title "Ego pervaia liubov'"), Babel's, Bunin's, and Nabokov's rewritings.  Tolstoy's "Posle bala" is a bit more distant, though may also qualify.  Among Western writers, I have on my list Harold Brodkey and Samuel Beckett (possibly).
If you know of other examples, I would really appreciate your tips, either on- or off-list (bojanows at rci.rutgers.edu).

Many thanks! And best wishes to all for the coming semester-
Edyta Bojanowska


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