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Fathers and Sons
- Author
- Ivan Turgenev
- Narrator
- Anthony Heald
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 2 June 2011
- Run Time
- 8 hours 8 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
One of the most controversial Russian novels ever written, Fathers and Sons dramatizes the volcanic social conflicts that divided Russia just before the revolution, pitting peasants against masters, traditionalists against intellectuals, and fathers against sons. It is also a timeless depiction of the ongoing clash between generations.
When a young graduate returns home, he is accompanied—much to his father and uncle's discomfort—by a strange friend who does not acknowledge any authority and does not accept any principle on faith. Bazarov is a nihilist, representing the new class of youthful radical intelligentsia that would come to overthrow the Russian aristocracy and its values. Uncouth and forthright in his opinions, Turgenev's hero is nonetheless susceptible to love and, by that fact, doomed to unhappiness.
Critics Review
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“Stirs the mind…because everything is permeated with the most complete and most touching sincerity.”
Dmitri Pisarev, Russian writer and social critic
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“No fiction writer can be read through with a steadier admiration.”
Edmund Wilson, American writer
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“[A novel of] profound vitality.”
N. N. Strakhov, Russian philosopher and literary critic
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“Vividly portrays the unsettled state of Russian peasantry before the revolution.”
Masterpieces of World Literature
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“The subtlety and rightness of Turgenev’s technique is most clearly seen in the central character Bazarov…a prefiguration of twentieth-century man.”
Masterpieces of World Literature
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“The physician Bazarov, the novel’s protagonist, is the most powerful of Turgenev’s creations.”
Merriam Webster’s Encyclopedia of Literature
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Details
- Author
- Ivan Turgenev
- Narrator
- Anthony Heald
- Duration
- 8 hours 8 minutes
- Release Date
- 2 June 2011
- ISBN
- 9781481571531
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Classic fiction, Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
One of the most controversial Russian novels ever written, Fathers and Sons dramatizes the volcanic social conflicts that divided Russia just before the revolution, pitting peasants against masters, traditionalists against intellectuals, and fathers against sons. It is also a timeless depiction of the ongoing clash between generations. When a young graduate returns home, he is accompanied—much to his father and uncle's discomfort—by a strange friend who does not acknowledge any authority and does not accept any principle on faith. Bazarov is a nihilist, representing the new class of youthful radical intelligentsia that would come to overthrow the Russian aristocracy and its values. Uncouth and forthright in his opinions, Turgenev's hero is nonetheless susceptible to love and, by that fact, doomed to unhappiness.
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