Legacy
This series of short stories revealed Turgenev's unique talent of short story writer. Evidently it influenced greatly all Russian short story writers of late XIX early XX such as Anton Chekhov, Ivan Bunin, Alexander Kuprin and many others.
Other world writers also admired Turgenev's style. Ernest Hemingway was particularly influenced by Turgenev's literature. He considered A Sportsman's Sketches to be a clear example for his own short stories.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)