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About Fathers and Sons. 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 ...
This is a novel that should probably be read by everybody (fathers, sons, mothers, daughters) at 18 years and again at 50 years. I'm somewhere in between, but it still enchanted me. 'Fathers and Sons' themes are universal, but also very relevant to Russia in the 1860s (post Emancipation Reform of 1861). IT is about the struggles between ...
Mar 1, 2007 · Read an Excerpt. From David Goldfarb’s Introduction to Fathers and Sons Ivan Turgenev completed his best-known novel, Ottsy i deti, familiarly rendered in English as Fathers and Sons, in 1861 and published it in the following year, after the emancipation of the serfs in Russia, but he set the novel in 1859, immediately prior to this pivotal moment in Russian history.
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev 3.99 avg rating — 91,397 ratings — published 1862 — 1781 editions
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But Fathers and Sons really hit the big time. In Germany Turgenev suddenly became the most-read author. In Germany Turgenev suddenly became the most-read author. It established what a Russian novel was and held that position for 20 years until suddenly, in the mid-1880s, people discovered Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, and the big sprawling novel ...
Aug 23, 2006 · Author Gary Shteyngart says his favorite novel is Fathers and Sons. Ivan Turgenev's story of two young men and their families "explains just about everything you need to know about families, love ...
