Kassyan of Fair Springs by Ivan Turgenev is one of the short stories included in A Sportsman’s Notebook, which is placed in the 873rd place on The Greatest Books of All Time site – a few hundred of those books are reviewed on my blog, where the best thing is https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html We enter the age of the Orange Nihilist - 9 out of 10

 

Kassyan of Fair Springs by Ivan Turgenev is one of the short stories included in A Sportsman’s Notebook, which is placed in the 873rd place on The Greatest Books of All Time site – a few hundred of those books are reviewed on my blog, where the best thing is https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html

We enter the age of the Orange Nihilist

9 out of 10

 

 

 

Kassyan of Fair Springs makes a crucial point:

 

-          That it is wrong to kill animals

 

There are caveats, when asked about the geese, farm animals, the protagonist, nicknamed The Flea, insists that ‘Those birds are provided by God for man, but the corncrake is a wild bird of the woods: and not he alone; many they are, the wild things of the woods and the fields, and the wild things of the rivers and marshes and moors, flying on high or creeping below; and a sin it is to slay them’ furthermore, Fishes have cold blood, The fish is a dumb creature’

Which brings to mind the quintessential To Kill a Mockingbird https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/to-kill-mocking-bird-by-harper-lee.html - there is something I have in common with Kassyan, and that is we both have ‘no occupation’, ego these silly notes here, and the reaction to them

 

Ove the past few weeks, I have received messages on Goodreads, asking for advice – to review certain books has been a long practice – and then to talk on telegram, which puzzled me, because those would be interlocutors (women) had not had any reaction to my suggestions, which, I repeat, had been required…

Obviously, I have expected some likes, given that they thought me wise enough to instruct, but even some other feedback would have made sense, such as I think that this character is better, or whatever, but no, nothing was forthcoming, except in one case, when we argued over the Orange Monster, disciple and admirer of Putin

 

Russian luminaries have enchanted me, I have started my serious reading with Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov, Demons, and then venerated Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Bulgakov, Tolstoy, Goncharov and a few others, including the author of this day, Ivan Turgenev, indeed, I am reading again:

Fathers and Sons and see it as the epitome of the perfect novel, with descriptions, personages that fit the formula included in my standard ending – to be found below, where else – from To The Hermitage, that purports the fact that characters in great novels are deeper, more interesting, the events there worth more than what we see around

 

Yevgeny Bazarov is a nihilist and the nemesis of Pavel Kirsanov, the latter would be my favorite in the struggle – I was thinking though that this is outré, seeing as things stand now, with Putin and the war in Ukraine, to have a Russian figure to ‘like’, even if a fictional one – which is also between old and new, art and…nothing

In some ways, it is almost an oxymoron – well, actually it is – to have a battle between civilization and the opposite, Bazarov and his disciple, Arkady, want to destroy – the ‘land needs clearing now’ – while Pavel and his brother, Nikolay, say somebody has to ‘build’, what about art, Rafael, principles and the rest of it?

 

The nihilist says ‘Rafael and the rest of them are not worth a copeck’, and with that, we could almost dismiss him as a good for nothing moron, in spite of his training as a doctor and anything else, only this is not as simple as that, we have a magnificent narrative, a magnum opus here, and Bazarov has more sides than this one

However, since there is so much in there, I think I will use these short stories of Turgenev, which are the basis for Fathers and Sons by the way, to elaborate on what is in the chef d’oeuvre, [perhaps moving towards our time, the age of the Orange Nihilist, who has embraced the mass murderer Putin, and attacks Zelensky and allies, what a sorry state the world is in, if we have progressed to this civilization – or else, Bazarov is right to deny it, if this America is the peak of it, then we can all become nihilists for god reason…

 

Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/02/is-this-unique-could-it-make-money.html  – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

 There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html

 

Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works

 

‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’

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