Excerpt from Phantoms and Other Stories
"Phantoms" and "It is Enough" were written next after "Fathers and Children." Although one of Turgenieff's minor works, the critics pronounced "Phantoms" original, wonderfully artistic and philosophical, and wonderfully lyrical. The author himself called it "a fantasy," as he did other sketches in which he sometimes poured out, in lyrical form, his sadness evoked by the contrary laws of nature, and man's aspirations toward the absolute, the eternal. It demonstrates the somewhat mystical romanticism which lay concealed in Turgenieff's nature, and only occasionally came to the light.
"Yakoff Pasynkoff" constitutes the author's response to Hegel's sentimental romanticism. The hero of the story is a martyr to the renunciation of egotism - a peculiar figure, toward which Turgenieff bore himself with the most fervent sympathy. Yakoff is sympathetic, as well as poetical, but remote from real life. One critic objects that the story is weak and incomplete and, as it were, split into two parts, which are unsymmetrical alone, and badly assorted when taken together.
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