Fathers and Sons Essay

This Study Guide consists of approximately 75 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Fathers and Sons.

Fathers and Sons Essay

This Study Guide consists of approximately 75 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Fathers and Sons.
This section contains 4,968 words
(approx. 13 pages at 400 words per page)
Buy the Fathers and Sons Study Guide

In the following excerpt, Lowe traces elements of both comedy and tragedy in Turgenev's novel.

Sometime during the first months of 1862 Afanasy Fet sent Turgenev his reactions to Father and Sons. Fet's letter is not extant, but we do have Turgenev's reply, and it reinforces the often expressed conviction that one ought not to pay too much attention to what writers have to say about their own works. In the letter of April 6/18, 1862, Turgenev writes: "You also mention parallelism; but where is it, allow me to ask, and where are these pairs, believing and unbelieving?" . . . [In] spite of Turgenev's protests parallelism is one of the two basic principles at work in the novel. The other is contrast. No doubt there are few works in world literature that do not depend to some extent on parallels and contrasts for the building blocks that hold them together and give...

(read more)

This section contains 4,968 words
(approx. 13 pages at 400 words per page)
Buy the Fathers and Sons Study Guide
Copyrights
Gale
Fathers and Sons from Gale. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.