Goethe’s <i>Faust</i> in the Cultural Identity of I. S. Turgenev
The goals and objectives of the article are associated with a comprehensive study of Turgenev’s interest in Goethe’s Faust , which correlate with his attempt to acquire his cultural identity. The subject of analysis were all types of reception: Turgenev’s critical article about Faust translated by M. Vronchenko (1845), his own translations from Faust (1844) and his creative assimilation - the story of the same name (1856). Turgenev believed in the moral mission of a woman, having elevated her above the reflecting and doubting man. This conviction, embodied in the female characters he later created, was formed under the influence of the image of Margarete, which he himself supplemented and deepened.