Phantoms
Author: Ivan Turgenev
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Languages: RU, German, English, French
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Short story
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A narrator meets the mysterious Alice and, on night flights, sees people, places, and unsettling visions of history.
Characters
- the narrator — witness to the visions: A solitary landowner drawn into nocturnal journeys.
- Alice — mysterious phantom: The narrator’s bodiless companion on his flights over the world.
- Stepan Timofeitch (Razin) — the ataman of the Volga vision: An unseen robber ataman whose voice thunders over the Volga in answer to the narrator’s cry.
- death — the final vision: A shapeless, sightless, senseless power that pursues the fliers and takes Alice from the narrator.