Fathers and Sons

by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (Author), Rosemary Edmonds (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1973

  $15.38

  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 accompanying 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 the traditional values of contemporary Russian society. Turgenev's depiction of the conflict between generations and their ideals stunned readers when Fathers and Sons was first published in 1862. But many could sympathize with Arkady's fascination with the nihilistic hero whose story vividly captures the hopes and regrets of a changing Russia.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1997

  $3.29

  Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons is considered to be one of the author's greatest literary achievements. It is novel about the clash of ideologies of two generations. The older generation, or the fathers, represents an aristocracy whose power and influence is fading and giving way to the younger generation, or the sons, who represent to middle class nihilistic ideology. Fathers and Sons is a brilliant work that captures the tension that existed among generations and class in the pre-revolutionary era in Russia.