There was no benefit from reading this book other than being able to say I know who Turgenev is now. I was very confused because I had heard so many good things about Turgenev and the book. I was expecting the writing to be as gripping as Tolstoy and Dostoevsky or at least exciting like Lermentov. But instead, I kept waiting and waiting and ended up being extremely disappointed but at least happy to be finished with it.