| Author: | Ivan Turgenev | ISBN: | 9782291018018 |
| Publisher: | LMAB | Publication: | May 2, 2018 |
| Imprint: | LMAB | Language: | English |
| Author: | Ivan Turgenev |
| ISBN: | 9782291018018 |
| Publisher: | LMAB |
| Publication: | May 2, 2018 |
| Imprint: | LMAB |
| Language: | English |
Never had he felt such weariness of body and of spirit. He had passed the whole evening in the company of charming ladies and cultivated men; some of the ladies were beautiful, almost all the men were distinguished by intellect or talent; he himself had talked with great success, even with brilliance… and, for all that, never yet had the taedium vitae of which the Romans talked of old, the 'disgust for life,' taken hold of him with such irresistible, such suffocating force.
Never had he felt such weariness of body and of spirit. He had passed the whole evening in the company of charming ladies and cultivated men; some of the ladies were beautiful, almost all the men were distinguished by intellect or talent; he himself had talked with great success, even with brilliance… and, for all that, never yet had the taedium vitae of which the Romans talked of old, the 'disgust for life,' taken hold of him with such irresistible, such suffocating force.
