Fathers And Sons
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the heart of Ivan Turgenev's masterwork Fathers and Sons lies one of literature's most enduring generational battles — the story of young Arkady Kirsanov, who returns to his family's Russian estate accompanied by the charismatic and fiercely radical Bazarov, a self-proclaimed nihilist whose contempt for tradition and sentiment sets him on a collision course with the old guard. Set against the backdrop of 1860s Russia, a nation on the cusp of seismic social change, the novel chronicles the volatile clash between the idealism of youth and the entrenched values of the aristocratic older generation, unraveling with both intellectual ferocity and profound emotional tenderness. Turgenev argues, with remarkable nuance and restraint, that neither generation holds the full truth — that progress and tradition are locked in an eternal, necessary tension. His prose, rendered with elegant economy, presents Bazarov as one of the most psychologically complex figures in the 19th-century canon: a man who preaches the negation of all feeling, yet finds himself undone by the very human forces he dismisses. First published in 1862, Fathers and Sons ignited fierce debate across the Russian intelligentsia and remains a defining work of realist fiction — a novel that leaves the reader questioning where conviction ends and self-delusion begins.
Author: Turgenev
Format: Paperback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the heart of Ivan Turgenev's masterwork Fathers and Sons lies one of literature's most enduring generational battles — the story of young Arkady Kirsanov, who returns to his family's Russian estate accompanied by the charismatic and fiercely radical Bazarov, a self-proclaimed nihilist whose contempt for tradition and sentiment sets him on a collision course with the old guard. Set against the backdrop of 1860s Russia, a nation on the cusp of seismic social change, the novel chronicles the volatile clash between the idealism of youth and the entrenched values of the aristocratic older generation, unraveling with both intellectual ferocity and profound emotional tenderness. Turgenev argues, with remarkable nuance and restraint, that neither generation holds the full truth — that progress and tradition are locked in an eternal, necessary tension. His prose, rendered with elegant economy, presents Bazarov as one of the most psychologically complex figures in the 19th-century canon: a man who preaches the negation of all feeling, yet finds himself undone by the very human forces he dismisses. First published in 1862, Fathers and Sons ignited fierce debate across the Russian intelligentsia and remains a defining work of realist fiction — a novel that leaves the reader questioning where conviction ends and self-delusion begins.