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Fathers and Sons
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Fathers and Sons (1862) (edit title/settings)

by Ivan Turgenev (Author) (edit contributors)

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FATHERS AND SONS was the most closely studied of Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev's works in the Soviet high school curriculum. An inadvertent political agenda favorite, juxtaposing two generations, "the fathers," or the fading aristocracy, and "the sons," or the new fresh blood of the middle class... read more

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  • “... and as for the times, why should I be influenced by them? Rather let them be influenced by me.”
  • “But the heat of noon passes, then comes evening and night, bringing a return to the peaceful haven where sweetly sleep the tired and weary...”
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  • “Vulgarity is often a welcome interlude in life. It slackens strings that are too highly strung and sobers self-confident or presumptuous feelings by a reminder of their kinship with it.”
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  • People are like trees in a forest. No botanist is going to study each individual birch tree.’
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  • The nihilist is a man who bows down to no authority, who takes no single principle on trust, however much respect be attached to that principle.’
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  • ‘Who approaches everything from a critical point of view,’
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  • Pavel on the other hand was a lonely bachelor and was coming to that troubled twilight time, a time of regrets that resemble hopes, of hopes that resemble regrets, when youth is past but old age has not yet come.
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  • ‘without principes, taken on trust, as you say, we can’t move one step forward or breathe.
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  • ‘We are guided by what we recognize as useful,’ said Bazarov. ‘The most useful course of action at present is to reject – and we reject.’
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  • I feel they have something which we don’t, some advantage over us… Youth? No, not just youth. Doesn’t their advantage lie in their being less marked by class than we are?’
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  • ‘it’s a pity to have been living like this for five years in the country, far away from great minds! You just become an utter fool. You try not to forget what you’ve been taught, and then – whoosh! – it turns out that it’s all nonsense and you’re told that sensible people don’t bother any more with such rubbish and that you’re just a backward idiot. What can one do! The young are clearly cleverer than we are.’
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  • Alas! The Bazarov who had scornfully shrugged his shoulders, who knew how to talk to the muzhiks (as he had boasted during his quarrel with Pavel Petrovich), that self-confident Bazarov didn’t even suspect that in their eyes he remained some kind of buffoon…
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  • Turgenev had the courage to acknowledge that his own generation was essentially a spent force.
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First Sentence edit see section history

'NOTHING to be seen yet, Peter?' was the question asked on 20th May 1859 by a landowner of a little over forty, in a dusty overcoat and checked trousers, as he came out to the low front steps of a post-station on the * * * highway, addressing his servant, a young, round-cheeked fellow with some whitish fluff on his chin and small, lacklustre eyes. -- Что, Петр? не видать ещё? -- спрашивал 20-го мая 1859 года, выходя без шапки на низкое крылечко постоялого двора на *** шоссе, барин лет сорока с небольшим, в запыленном пальто и клетчатых панталонах, у своего слуги, молодого и щекастого малого с беловатым пухом на подбородке и маленькими тусклыми глазёнками.

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 874 of 1272 in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. (authoritative list)

Preceded by Les Misérables, and followed by Silas Marner.

This book is in Penguin Classics. (edition-based publisher list)
This book is in Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read. (authoritative list)
This is book 43 of 91 in The Novel 100: A Ranking of the Greatest Novels of All Time, 2004. (authoritative list)

Preceded by The Scarlet Letter, and followed by Nostromo.

This book is in School Library (Школьная Библиотека). (edition-based publisher list)

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Ivan Turgenev (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Fritz Eichenberg (Illustrator) - The Easton Press leatherbound edition, 1977
  2. Ralph E. Matlaw (Translator)
  3. Michael R. Katz (Translator)
  4. Constance Garnett (Translator)
  5. Isaiah Berlin (Introduction)
  6. Rosemary Edmonds (Translator)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: Russian
Publisher: The Russian Messenger
Country: Russia
Publication Date: 1862
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 240

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