Fathers and Sons
$23.67
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
15 December 2009
Summary
Peter Carson’s new translation of Turgenev’s vivid and honest tale of generational conflict.
When Arkady Petrovich comes home from college, his father finds his eager, naive son changed almost beyond recognition, for the impressionable Arkady has fallen under the powerful influence of the friend he has brought with him. A self-proclaimed nihilist, the ardent young Bazarov shocks Arkady’s father by criticizing the landowning way of life and by his outspoken determination to sweep away …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141441337 |
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| ISBN-10: | 014144133X |
| Author: | Tatyana Tolstaya, Ivan Turgenev, Rosamund Bartlett, Peter Carson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 15 December 2009 |
| Weight: | 188g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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“No fiction writer can be read through with a steadier admiration.” –Edmund Wilson
Fathers and Sons was one of the first Russian novels to be translated for a wider European audience. It is a difficult art: in this superb new version, Peter Carson has succeeded splendidly
– Michael Binyon * The Times *If you want to get as close as an English reader can to enjoying Turgenev, Carson is probably the best – Donald Rayfield * Times Literary Supplement *About The Author
Tatyana Tolstaya
Ivan Turgenev (Author)
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was born in 1818 in the province of Oryol. After his family moved to Moscow in 1827, he entered St Petersburg University where he studied philosophy. When he was nineteen, he published his first poems and went to the University of Berlin. After two years, he returned to Russia and took his degree at the University of Moscow. After 1856, he lived mostly abroad, and he became the first Russian writer to gain a wide reputation in Europe. He wrote many novels, plays, short stories and novellas, of which First Love (1860) is the most famous. He died in Paris in 1883.
Peter Carson (Translator)
Peter Carson learned Russian during National Service in the Navy at the Joint Services School for Linguistics, Crail and London, and at home - his mother’s family left Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution. His working life has been spent on the editorial side of London publishing.
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