Tchulkaturin, a guy who has learned that he has two weeks left to live,
is the person we encounter at Sheep's Springs. He alternates between
sharing the events of his life, upbringing, relationships with his
family, and experiences, but he believes these activities are just
unrelated to where he is right now. Yegor's final cow passed away the
night before, and he says of the guy, "That man understands how to bear
in quiet," in 1058. If one were to do the arithmetic, that would be
everyone suffering in the world. Asanov's letters are given to our
narrator by his buddy Pasinkov, who discovers that they are from the
same female who has expressed interest in him. When he broaches the
subject with her, he discovers that he has been despised and stumbles
off pitifully. With Turgenev's justification that "the man who leaves a
woman at that great and bitter moment when he is forced to recognize
that his heart is not entirely, not fully, hers, has a truer and deeper
comprehension of the sacredness of love," Kosolov ultimately succeeds in
his claim to be a remarkable man (2070). This is a correspondence
between Marya Alexandrovna and Alexy Petrovitch. 15 letters were sent
over around two years, in which each party confides and fears the other.
