Marya Kalitin anticipates a match between her eldest daughter, the serious-minded Elizaveta (Liza) and a vain, visiting fop named Panshin. The widow has two daughters and a son and leads a quiet, pleasant life spent with friends, acquaintances and neighbours. The novel opens in the provincial town of O in the home of the Kalitins with affluent widow, Marya Kalitin who shares the house with her elderly aunt Marfa. Home of the Gentry (sometimes translated a s Nest of the Gentry) examines the fallout of the distancing of the upper classes from their own country through its main character, Lavretsky. This adoration of Western culture created a longtime debate and split within Russian society’s intelligentsia, and on the other side of the debate was Slavophilism with its disdain for Western culture. The “ superfluous man” is typically a member of the nobility who’s either been educated abroad or educated to worship all things European, and this leads to a complete emotional detachment and alienation from Russian culture. The Home of the Gentry, Ivan Turgenev’s second novel, is an important work that explores the idea of the “ superfluous man.” Written in 1858, its main theme is the maladjustment of the upper classes to their native Russian culture.
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