# The Revival

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- Book: [The Revival](https://www.bookquiver.com/julian-barnes/the-revival) ([The Revival.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/julian-barnes/the-revival.md))
- Authors: [Julian Barnes](https://www.bookquiver.com/julian-barnes)
- Publisher: Vintage Digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4812-877-8
- Published: 2011-11-17
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

The ambiguous relationship between Ivan Turgenev and the ingénue starring in the revival of one of his early plays is revealed through the fragments of sources left to a researcher. It is a love predicated on renunciation, in which the appeal of a perpetual 'if-only' is explored. Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection The Lemon Table .