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Ivan Turgenev

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Fathers and Sons Summary

Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons was originally published in 1862 in the Russian magazine, Russkii vestnik (The Russian Herald), under the title, Ottsy i deti, and is also known as Fathers and Children in some translations. Even before its publication, the novel ignited controversy. The generation gap between the fathers and sons in the story neatly symbolized the current political debates between the older reactionaries and the younger radicals. The character of Bazarov, a...

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Fathers and Sons

3,924 words, approx. 14 pages

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev Born to a wealthy and aristocratic family in the Russian province of Orel, Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-83) was educated in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Russia,... Read more

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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev

2,418 words, approx. 9 pages

The Russian novelist, dramatist, and short-story writer Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883) was a founder of the Russian realistic novel. He ranks as one of the greatest stylists in the Russian lang... Read more

Ivan Turgenev

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Although his most enduring work is the novel Fathers and Sons, Russian realist writer Ivan Turgenev changed the lives of Russian serfs with his 1852 book Zapiski okhotnika, much as American writer Har... Read more

Ivan Turgenev

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Henry James--friend, colleague, and student--said of Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev that he was "in a peculiar degree what I may call the novelist's novelist, an artistic influence extraordinarily valuable,... Read more

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Nihilism in Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons

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Ivan Turgenev's Fathers & Sons is a novel which showcases the political tension between radicals and conservatives in pre revolution 1850's Russia. Turgenev was a political activist in Russia and had... Read more

Relationships in Fathers and Sons

891 words, approx. 3 pages

The novel, Fathers and Sons, by Ivan Turgenev is a novel which revolves around the intricate relationship between the father and the son. Within our society, change is always happening. This is no d... Read more

Immunity to Nihilism in Turgenev's "fathers and Sons"

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Immunity to Nihilism in Turgenev's Fathers and Sons Whenever reform or revolution is possible, it is because a new, progressive ideal has been quickly and widely perpetuated among the people of a p... Read more

Analysis of Bazarov in Fathers and Sons

522 words, approx. 2 pages

Critical analysis of Bazarov Bazarov is a model of the "new man" of the 1860s. He is a representative of the sons mentioned in the title. These sons are in revolt against the principals of their f... Read more

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