by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782290305348
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«Les eaux printanières» is the short novel by Ivan Turgenev, published by Librio in paperback (126 pages, in French).
A mature man recalls his youth: passing through Frankfurt, he falls in love with Gemma, the daughter of a confectioner. For her sake he fights a duel and vies with her fiancé, but a trip to Wiesbaden to sell his lands leads him into a deception that will blight his happiness.
Translation from the Russian by Jacques Imbert, complete text edition. The original novel, «Вешние воды», was published in 1872.
A work for readers of Russian classics and romantic stories with a melancholy undertone.
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818–1883) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West.
