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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 permeated with the most complete and most touching sincerity.' N. N. Strakhov, a close friend of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, praised its 'profound vitality.' It is this profound vitality in Turgenev's characters that carry his novel of ideas to its rightful place as a work of art and as one of the classics of Russian Literature.

Fathers and Sons Modern Library Classics

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    A Paperback by Ivan Turgenev, Ann Pasternak Slater, Constance Garnett

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      Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 11/13/2001 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780375758393, 978-0375758393
      ISBN10: 0375758399

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      Book Synopsis
      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 permeated with the most complete and most touching sincerity.' N. N. Strakhov, a close friend of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, praised its 'profound vitality.' It is this profound vitality in Turgenev's characters that carry his novel of ideas to its rightful place as a work of art and as one of the classics of Russian Literature.

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