num_pages: 228
description: 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 is permeated with the most complete and most touching sincerity." N. N. Strakhov, a close friend of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, praised its "profound vitality." It is this profound vitality in Turgenev's characters that carry his novel of ideas to its rightful place as a work of art and as one of the classics of Russian Literature.
language: English
title: Fathers and Sons
titlecomplete: Fathers and Sons (Modern Library Classics)
characters: Katya Nikolayevic Lokten Kirsanov, Nicolay Petroviç Kirsanov, Piyotr, Arkady Kirsanov, Anna Sergeeyevna Odintson, Fenicka Kirsanov, Mitya Kirsanov, Prokofyic, Arina Vlasyevna Bazarov, Evgeny Bazarov, Porfiriy Dlatonyic, Agafokleya Kuzminishna Kirsanov, Matyei Ilyic Kolyazin, Vasiliy Ivanovic Bazarov, Masha Kirsanov, Yevdoksiya Kushkina, Sitnikov
genres: Fiction, Philosophy, Literature, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Russian Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Russia
ratings_count: 86194
places: Russian Empire
awards: awardedAt: 1451635200000
name: Read Russia Prize
category: Classic Russian Literature for Joaquín Fernández Valdes
publisher: Modern Library