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Fathers and Sons

Ivan Turgenev

Start date: June 1, 2019

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Aug 05, 2012 Chrissie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audible-us, soviet-union, russia, hf, classics, life-stages, philo-psychol, 2014-read, love

I REALLLLLY, really, really, really liked this. I fell in love with Yevgeny Vasil'evich Bazarov – yeah, the nihilist. I am not one to favor nihilism; it is the wrong philosophy to have in life. But you know how it is - the way you love your children. You love them regardless of their silly ideas, regardless of what they do, regardless of the mean things they may say to you. You still love them with all your heart. You would do anything to save them. Well, I fell in love with Yevgeny in that way. ...more

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Sep 20, 2011 Laura rated it really liked it

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Opening lines:
“Well, Pyotr, still not in sight?” was the question asked on 20th May, 1859, by a gentleman of about forty, wearing a dusty overcoat and checked trousers, who came out hatless into the low porch of the posting station at X. He was speaking to his servant, a chubby young fellow with whitish down growing on his chin and with dim little eyes.

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“He is a nihilist,” repeated Arkady.
“A nihilist,” said Nikolai Petrovich. “That comes from the ...more

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Mar 05, 2018 Jim Townsend rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I enjoyed this. It is hard to like Bazarov but easy to pity his parents. The author explores the interactions and reactions between fathers and sons, sisters (even those from different misters) and brothers (even those from different mothers). I bought this alternate cover edition at a library book sale. Unlike many classics, this one read fast. Turgenev is more accessible than either Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy, both of whom despised him, and this book is his masterpiece. Read it. You'll be glad you ...more

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Aug 24, 2015 Douglas Beagley rated it really liked it

I read this once in high school and a second time in college. I don't remember a thing about it, but both readings were voluntary (not school related) and enjoyed deeply, so it must have been good. ...more

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