Fathers and Sons (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved Daniel Z’s request to change the contributors of Fathers and Sons Tuesday, October 13 2009.

• Edited a contributor: Ralph E. Matlaw: (Primary NoneTranslator)
• Edited a contributor: Michael R. Katz: (Primary NoneTranslator)
• Edited a contributor: Constance Garnett: (Primary NoneTranslator)
• Added a contributor: Isaiah Berlin: (Introduction)
• Added a contributor: Rosemary Edmonds: (Translator)
• Removed a contributor: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev: (Primary None)
• Removed a contributor: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev: (Primary None)

Daniel Z edited the contributors of Fathers and Sons Tuesday, October 13 2009.

• Edited a contributor: Ralph E. Matlaw: (Primary NoneTranslator)
• Edited a contributor: Michael R. Katz: (Primary NoneTranslator)
• Edited a contributor: Constance Garnett: (Primary NoneTranslator)
• Added a contributor: Isaiah Berlin: (Introduction)
• Added a contributor: Rosemary Edmonds: (Translator)
• Removed a contributor: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev: (Primary None)
• Removed a contributor: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev: (Primary None)

Amanda L edited the quotations of Fathers and Sons Tuesday, September 1 2009.

• Added a quotation: “... and as for the times, why should I be influenced by them? Rather let them be influenced by me.”

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Fathers and Sons Sunday, August 30 2009.

• On 9 October 1883 Ivan Turgenev'NOTHING to be seen yet, Peter?' was buried, as he had wished, in St Petersburg, nearthe grave of his admired friend, 1. Belinsky's words - 'autocracy, Orthodoxy and the people' - echo the official patriotic formula inventedquestion asked on 20th May 1859 by a Ministerlandowner of Education earlya little over forty, in a dusty overcoat and checked trousers, as he came out to the reignlow front steps of Nicolas I.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.

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Fathers and Sons Sunday, August 30 2009.

• "Well, Peter, no sightOn 9 October 1883 Ivan Turgenev was buried, as he had wished, in St Petersburg, near the grave of him yet?" asked a gentleman about forty years old wearing a short, dusty coathis admired friend, 1. Belinsky's words - 'autocracy, Orthodoxy and checkered trousers, standing hatless onthe people' - echo the low stepsofficial patriotic formula invented by a Minister of an inn onEducation early in the *** road.reign of Nicolas I.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Fathers and Sons Sunday, August 30 2009.

• Added a contributor: Michael R. Katz: (Primary None)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Fathers and Sons Sunday, August 30 2009.

• "Well,"Well, Peter, no sight of him yet?"yet?" asked a gentleman about forty years old wearing a short, dusty coat and checkered trousers, standing hatless on the low steps of an inn on the *** road.

Timothy Gray approved Punxsutawney Paul’s request to combine 19 books, including Fathers and Sons, Sunday, August 30 2009.

Punxsutawney Paul submitted a request to combine 19 books, including Fathers and Sons, Sunday, August 16 2009.

Shelfari edited the description of Fathers and Sons Monday, August 3 2009.

• 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 and the nihilists, the novel seemed a perfect vehicle for portraying the brewing unrest of the pre-revolutionary era, and introduced the character of Bazarov -- the spirited nihilist who was seen as a brilliant idealistic rebel, the new kind of perfect man who rejected the old notions of class and came to disrupt nobility's status quo. Growing up, Turgenev witnessed much class injustice in Russia, and his themes reflect his overwhelming concern with the suffering of the poor and the voiceless serfs. But FATHERS AND SONS is not merely a convenient socio-political piece; Turgenev is a lyrical romantic. At the novel's heart lies the ultimately tragic human story of Bazarov's flippant kiss of a servant girl and the bizarre tension it causes in a cozy country gentry household where he is a guest. An important period classic.