Fathers and Sons
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Fathers and Sons
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Narrated by:
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Anthony Heald
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By:
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Ivan Turgenev
About this listen
One of the most controversial Russian novels ever written, Fathers and Sons dramatizes the volcanic social conflicts that divided Russia just before the revolution, pitting peasants against masters, traditionalists against intellectuals, and fathers against sons. It is also a timeless depiction of the ongoing clash between generations.
When a young graduate returns home, he is accompanied—much to his father's and uncle's discomfort—by a strange friend who does not acknowledge any authority and does not accept any principle on faith. Bazarov is a nihilist, representing the new class of young radical intelligentsia that would come to overthrow the Russian aristocracy and its values. Uncouth and forthright in his opinions, Turgenev’s hero is nonetheless susceptible to love and, by that fact, doomed to unhappiness.
Public Domain (P)2011 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Critic reviews
The characters are sharp and realistic even when discussing archaic ideas you see the humanity shining through, the plot is life and its choices, the beginning of Russia's path to extremism and a society of a new kind, the gestation of ideas that still colour our world, superlative dialog that is full of shade and colour.
Who needs a time machine this book takes you there and lets you observe the arrogance of the young and vulnerability of the old, how through serendipity we can find love and how futile it is to live by ideas alone.
One of the best books I have read, beautiful and poignant even today; 188 years later
Russia first modern classic.
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