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A vivid, timeless depiction of the clash between the older Russian aristocracy and the youthful radicalism that foreshadowed the revolution. This controversial classic offers modern readers much to reflect upon amidst today's tumultuous, changing world.]]> 1862 5 1 false Sun Dec 23 09:43:47 -0800 2007 Sat Jan 05 09:47:34 -0800 2008 more...]]> 9500346 132800 146473 0393967522 9780393967524 17 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172180808m/146473.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172180808s/146473.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/146473.Fathers_and_Sons 3.78 2925 1862 2 2 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 24 20:16:37 -0800 2007 Tue Jan 08 18:43:02 -0800 2008 nihilism means to reject any kind of authority (and philosophizing thereof) and heading over to swampy waters in search of frogs. Love is the devil and may cause you to sink to the depths of the swamp, only for the next nihilist to examine any traces of infusoria in what remains.
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A vivid, timeless depiction of the clash between the older Russian aristocracy and the youthful radicalism that foreshadowed the revolution. This controversial classic offers modern readers much to reflect upon amidst today's tumultuous, changing world.]]> 1862 5 0 false Thu Mar 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 14:49:05 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 19 14:28:56 -0700 2009 Fathers and Sons is an exquisite novel, sensitive and perceptive, perfectly balancing the eternal issues of tradition and progressivism, conservativism and liberalism, science and religion, and, perhaps above all, the ambiguities and ambivalences of intergenerati...more...]]> 59856290 1636791 2274844 0451523822 9780451523822 3 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2274844.Fathers_and_Sons 3.86 14 1862 3 0 false Wed Jun 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 02:51:40 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 02:14:47 -0700 2009 2 more...]]> 60913580 2448264 19117 0451529693 9780451529695 156 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167198218m/19117.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167198218s/19117.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19117.Fathers_and_Sons 3.78 2925
A vivid, timeless depiction of the clash between the older Russian aristocracy and the youthful radicalism that foreshadowed the revolution. This controversial classic offers modern readers much to reflect upon amidst today's tumultuous, changing world.]]> 1862 5 0 false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1988 Wed Jun 24 07:53:40 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 20:00:10 -0700 2009 *********************************************************************
5 Stars: This book is a timeless classic and undisputed member of the literary canon. I read and loved it.

4 Stars: This book is a personal classic. A book I am happy to read agai...more...]]> 41378526 974210 3167912 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1260245539m/3167912.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1260245539s/3167912.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3167912.Fathers_and_Sons 4.00 2 The fathers & children of the novel refers to the growing divide between two Russian generations. The character Yevgeny Bazarov has been referred to as the 1st Bolshevik for his nihilistic rejection of the old order.
Turgenev wrote Fathers & Sons responding to the growing cultural schism he saw between liberals of the 1830/40s & a growing nihilist movement. Both the nihilists (the sons) & the liberals sought Western-based social change. Additionally, these two modes of thought were contrasted with the conservative Slavophiles, who believed that Russia's path lay in traditional spirituality.
Fathers & Sons may be the 1st wholly modern novel in Russian literature (Gogol's Dead Souls, another main contender, is sometimes referred to as a poem or epic in prose like Dante's Comedy). The novel introduces a dual character study, as seen with the gradual breakdown of Bazarov's & Arkady's nihilistic opposition to emotional display, especially in the case of Bazarov's love for Madame Odintsova & Fenichka. This prominent theme of character duality & deep psychological insight would exert an influence on many great Russian novels to come, most obviously echoed in Tolstoy & Dostoevsky.
The novel is also the 1st Russian work to gain prominence in the Western world, eventually gaining the approval of Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant, & Henry James, proving that Russian literature owes much to Turgenev.]]> 1862 4 0 false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 1973 Wed Dec 31 01:34:15 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 31 01:44:02 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 53159430 1807685 373813 0192833928 9780192833921 10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174260690m/373813.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174260690s/373813.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/373813.Fathers_and_Sons 3.82 98 published in 1862 and continues today to seem as fresh and outspoken as it did to those who first encountered its nihilistic hero.]]> 1862 5 0 false Fri Apr 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 15:50:28 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 24 16:37:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 53144407 38124 1068449 1593082614 9781593082611 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180713513m/1068449.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180713513s/1068449.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1068449.Fathers_and_Sons 3.58 12 Fathers & Sons is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, offering good editions at affordable prices, including new scholarship, thoughtful design & pages of extras: new introductions; author biographies; chronologies; notes; selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary & films inspired by the work; comments by famous authors; study questions; bibliographies; indices & glossaries. All editions are printed to high specifications. Some include illustrations of historical interest.
Youth rebels. It was true in Russia in 1862 when Fathers & Sons appeared. At its center stands Evgeny Bazarov, medical student, doctor's son & nihilist. Bazarov rejects authority, all so-called truths based on faith rather than science & experience. His ideas bring him into conflict with his best friend, recent graduate Arkady Kirsanov, with Arkady's family, with his own parents & eventually with his emotions when he falls in love with the beautiful Madame Odintsova.
Turgenev's prior A Sportsman's Sketches helped end serfdom in 1861. His complex portrait of Bazarov, whose goals he admired but whose rejection of art & embrace of violence he rejected, enraged both right & left. The right saw Fathers & Sons as glorifying radical extremism. The left saw it as a denunciation of progress. Even today, readers argue over his attitude towards Bazarov, unable to resist the novel's power to grip the heart while engaging the mind.
David Goldfarb is Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages at Barnard College. He has published numerous scholarly articles as well as the Introduction & Notes to the series' edition of Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilych & Other Stories.]]> 1862 5 0 false Sat Apr 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 12:47:38 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 12:53:02 -0700 2009
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Upon his deathbed after contracting a disease while conducting scientific experiments, the rebellious nihilist Bazarov utters, "Does Russia need me? No, clearly ...more...]]> 39577318 805686 19117 0451529693 9780451529695 156 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167198218m/19117.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167198218s/19117.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19117.Fathers_and_Sons 3.78 2925
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