ABSTRACT
Turgenev is in a peculiar degree what I may call the novelist’s novelist – an artistic influence extraordinarily valuable and ineradicably established.
The affection, affinity and reverence felt by Henry James for Turgenev, and the personal contacts through which these developed, represent one of the best attested and documented relationships between writers of different nationalities. The copious references to Turgenev in James’s writings have formed the basis of studies of both their personal connection and the artistic influence of Turgenev’s fiction on that of James.
