Fathers and Sons

Name: Fathers and Sons
ISBN: 9781443435413

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gruseom · May 12, 2013 · Recommends

…translations), like The Defense, for example. If you want to go whole hog into postmodernism then try Pynchon or Gaddis. The 19th century Russians from Gogol to Chekhov are pretty much can't-lose. Turgenev's Fathers and Sons is beautiful and captures the spirit of youth. Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier is a short masterpiece. The Great Gatsby is as good as its reputation says. Read Dickens if you want the essence of the…
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thomasmiller_ · Jan 3, 2025 · Recommends

I like to recommend Ivan Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons" as it gives a contemporary critical view of the nihilistic and utopian ideologies that shaped Russian intellectual discourse of the 1860s.
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AlbertCory · Dec 26, 2022 · Mentions

Funny to read this today. Last night I got sick of TV, sick of all the interwebs' distractions, and just sat there with eyes closed, letting my mind wander. Finally I remembered I wanted to read Fathers and Sons (Turgenev). Here's a great question: why am I here and not reading that? BRB.
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jl6 · Mar 3, 2024 · Mentions

1866 was shortly after the publication of Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, which popularized the word nihilism.
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