ART DISPUTE OF I. TURGENEV WITH H. DE BALZAC: NOVELS «NOBLE NEST» AND «THE LILY OF THE VALLEY»

Abstract

The article reveals the nature of art polemic of I. Turgenev with the novel «The Lily of the Valley» by H. de Balzac presented in «Noble Nest». In both texts, parallels can be traced at the level of a plot, types, separate images, motives, and metaphors. In his novel, Balzac has expressed a thought of insolvency of the bans and dogmas imposed by Christian teaching as these bans, according to the writer, make people unfortunate. Turgenev, addressing in many respects a similar plot, on the contrary, showed that without religious feeling there is no human person. The love which arises between Lisa Kalitina and Fedor Lavretsky develops in the view of love to God and to people, and therefore it doesn’t disappear but becomes a source of their internal force.