Hearing in "Confessions of a Tourist", the author turned the material for conversations, conducted for the press over the years, into a fictitious hearing in which questions are asked about politics, adventures, literature, criticism...
A collection of reports, biographical notes, speeches and travelogues that, from 1985-1996, this prominent Austrian writer wrote for Austrian magazines.
The novel was published in 1862, and in it Turgenev deals with the archetypal relationship between young and old, past and future, old and new values of mid-19th-century Russia.