Fathers and Sons Russian Classic Fiction of Nihilism, Young Rebellion, and the Limits of Reason
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05.11.2026
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Library of AlexandriaSeitenzahl
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Englisch
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9781808300387
What happens when the ideas that promise to change the world collide with the people we love?
In Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons, Arkady returns from university to his family's country estate with his friend Yevgeny Bazarov, a young man determined to reject inherited authority. Bazarov calls himself a nihilist: he trusts science and practical knowledge, not the traditions, art, or romantic convictions cherished by his elders. His presence turns a homecoming into a searching confrontation between generations.
Set in nineteenth-century Russia amid pressures for social change, the novel brings public arguments into the intimate world of family life. Arkady's father, Nikolai, hopes to understand the young men, while his uncle Pavel resists Bazarov's defiant beliefs. Yet love and attachment prove harder to dismiss than any abstract principle. Through Bazarov's encounter with Anna Odintsova and the bonds that draw both young men toward their families, Turgenev tests the distance between what people profess and what they feel. The result is a sharply observed, deeply humane novel that refuses to make either youth or age the sole keeper of truth.
What readers find inside:
- A memorable rebel - Bazarov's confidence and contradictions give nihilism a vivid human face.
- Generations in conflict - Disputes over authority and progress expose the affection beneath family disagreements.
- Love against conviction - Romantic feeling challenges the belief that reason alone can govern a life.
- Russia at a crossroads - Country estates and conversations reveal a society questioning its inherited values.
- Compassionate realism - Turgenev gives competing outlooks emotional weight without reducing his characters to arguments.
For readers of Russian classics, philosophical fiction, and family stories shaped by social change, this novel offers both intellectual challenge and emotional intimacy. Its questions remain familiar wherever generations struggle to understand one another.
Enter Turgenev's Russia and meet a young rebel whose certainty is tested by life itself.
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