Excerpt from First Love and Other Stories
The novel "First Love" was Turgenieff's favourite work, as he more than once confessed. What the author prized in this purely intimate but beautifully finished story was its fidelity to actuality; that is to say, he prized the personal recollections of early youth. In that respect this story has a prominent interest for readers, since it narrates - according to the testimony of the author - an actual fact in his life, and that without the slightest artificial colouring. To what degree Turgenieff's testimony is credible, remarks one critic, is a question which can be rightly decided only by biographical documents. Famous writers are particularly inclined by nature to romantic coquetry with their own personalities - a characteristic which was, apparently, to some extent, inherent in Turgenieff, despite his renowned modesty.
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