num_pages: 296
description: Bazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his friend Arkady Kirsanov. But soon Bazarov’s outspoken rejection of authority and social conventions touches off quarrels, misunderstandings, and romantic entanglements that will utterly transform the Kirsanov household and reflect the changes taking place across all of nineteenth-century Russia.Fathers and Sons enraged the old and the young, reactionaries, romantics, and radicals alike when it was first published. At the same time, Turgenev won the acclaim of Flaubert, Maupassant, and Henry James for his craftsmanship as a writer and his psychological insight. Fathers and Sons is now considered one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century.A timeless depiction of generational conflict during social upheaval, it vividly portrays the clash between the older Russian aristocracy and the youthful radicalism that foreshadowed the revolution to come—and offers modern-day readers much to reflect upon as they look around at their own tumultuous, ever changing world.
language: English
title: Fathers and Sons
titlecomplete: Fathers and Sons
characters: Masha Kirsanov, Yevdoksiya Kushkina, Porfiriy Dlatonyic, Vasiliy Ivanovic Bazarov, Mitya Kirsanov, Prokofyic, Sitnikov, Evgeny Bazarov, Katya Nikolayevic Lokten Kirsanov, Agafokleya Kuzminishna Kirsanov, Fenicka Kirsanov, Arkady Kirsanov, Anna Sergeeyevna Odintson, Matyei Ilyic Kolyazin, Arina Vlasyevna Bazarov, Piyotr, Nicolay Petroviç Kirsanov
genres: Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Philosophy, Russian Literature, 19th Century, Russia, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 86173
places: Russian Empire
awards: awardedAt: 1451635200000
name: Read Russia Prize
category: Classic Russian Literature for Joaquín Fernández Valdes
publisher: Oxford University Press