Fathers and Sons
$29.75
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
15 November 2001
Summary
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, cerebral medical student, Evgenii Bazarov, representing the younger one? The critic Dmitrii Pisarev wrote at the time that the novel “stirs the mind … because everything …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375758393 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0375758399 |
| Author: | Ivan Turgenev, Ann Pasternak Slater, Constance Garnett, Elizabeth Cheresh Allen |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Edition: | Revised edition |
| Release Date: | 15 November 2001 |
| Weight: | 227g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 132mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Modern Library Classics |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
“No fiction writer can be read through with a steadier admiration.” –Edmund Wilson
“No fiction writer can be read through with a steadier admiration.”
–Edmund Wilson
About The Author
Ivan Turgenev
Ann Pasternak Slater is a Fellow of St. Anne’s College, Oxford. She is the author of Shakespeare the Director and the translator of the memoirs of Alexander Pasternak, A Vanished Present.
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