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Fathers and Sons
Paperback
$19.00
By Ivan Turgenev, Ann Pasternak Slater (Introduction), Constance Garnett (Translator), Elizabeth Cheresh Allen (Revised by)
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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 ...