Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev - ISBN: 9780375758393
Paperback
Generational clash: radical youth versus tradition in Russia’s changing times.

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  • Paperback

    256 pages

  • Release Date

    15 November 2001

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Summary

When Fathers and Sons was first published in Russia, in 1862, it was met with a blaze of controversy about where Turgenev stood in relation to his account of generational misunderstanding. Was he criticizing the worldview of the conservative aesthete, Pavel Kirsanov, and the older generation, or that of the radical, cerebral medical student, Evgenii Bazarov, representing the younger one? The critic Dmitrii Pisarev wrote at the time that the novel “stirs the mind … because everything …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780375758393
ISBN-10:0375758399
Author:Ivan Turgenev, Ann Pasternak Slater, Constance Garnett, Elizabeth Cheresh Allen
Publisher:Random House USA Inc
Imprint:Modern Library Inc
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Edition:Revised edition
Release Date:15 November 2001
Weight:227g
Dimensions:203mm x 132mm x 14mm
Series:Modern Library Classics
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Critics Review

“No fiction writer can be read through with a steadier admiration.” –Edmund Wilson

“No fiction writer can be read through with a steadier admiration.”
–Edmund Wilson

About The Author

Ivan Turgenev

Ann Pasternak Slater is a Fellow of St. Anne’s College, Oxford. She is the author of Shakespeare the Director and the translator of the memoirs of Alexander Pasternak, A Vanished Present.

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