Fathers And Sons
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
At the heart of nineteenth-century Russia's most turbulent ideological conflict stands Arkady Kirsanov, a young university graduate who returns to his family estate with his firebrand friend Bazarov — a self-proclaimed nihilist who scorns tradition, sentiment, and the old aristocratic order his host's father represents. Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons chronicles the explosive collision between generations, dramatising the war between romantic idealism and cold-eyed rationalism with an unflinching precision that shocked Russian society upon its publication in 1862. Turgenev constructs his narrative with the elegant economy of a master craftsman, granting equal humanity to both the entrenched older generation and the restless, iconoclastic youth who seek to dismantle everything they hold dear. The novel stands as a landmark of Russian realism, and its central antagonist, Bazarov, remains one of literature's most compelling and fiercely debated portraits of radical thought. Translated for Penguin Classics and introduced for the modern reader, Fathers and Sons asks a question that resonates across every age: when the new world refuses to honour the old, what — and who — is left behind?
Author: Turgenev
Format: Paperback
Published: 2000, Penguin Classics
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
At the heart of nineteenth-century Russia's most turbulent ideological conflict stands Arkady Kirsanov, a young university graduate who returns to his family estate with his firebrand friend Bazarov — a self-proclaimed nihilist who scorns tradition, sentiment, and the old aristocratic order his host's father represents. Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons chronicles the explosive collision between generations, dramatising the war between romantic idealism and cold-eyed rationalism with an unflinching precision that shocked Russian society upon its publication in 1862. Turgenev constructs his narrative with the elegant economy of a master craftsman, granting equal humanity to both the entrenched older generation and the restless, iconoclastic youth who seek to dismantle everything they hold dear. The novel stands as a landmark of Russian realism, and its central antagonist, Bazarov, remains one of literature's most compelling and fiercely debated portraits of radical thought. Translated for Penguin Classics and introduced for the modern reader, Fathers and Sons asks a question that resonates across every age: when the new world refuses to honour the old, what — and who — is left behind?