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Fathers and Sons
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Fathers and Sons Paperback - 2013

by Ivan Turgenev


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  • Title Fathers and Sons
  • Author Ivan Turgenev
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 194
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Date 2013-12-27
  • ISBN 9781494810634 / 1494810638
  • Weight 0.59 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.41 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.04 cm)
  • Reading level 980
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
    • Cultural Region: Russian
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Ivan Turgenev (1818 -1883) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright. His first major publication, a short story collection entitled A Sportsman's Sketches, is a milestone of Russian Realism, and his novel Fathers and Sons is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century fiction. Turgenev's artistic purity made him a favorite of like-minded novelists of the next generation, such as Henry James and Joseph Conrad, both of whom greatly preferred Turgenev to Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. James, who wrote no fewer than five critical essays on Turgenev's work, claimed that "his merit of form is of the first order" (1873) and praised his "exquisite delicacy", which "makes too many of his rivals appear to hold us, in comparison, by violent means, and introduce us, in comparison, to vulgar things" (1896). The notoriously critical Vladimir Nabokov praised Turgenev's "plastic musical flowing prose", but criticized his "labored epilogues" and "banal handling of plots". Nabokov stated that Turgenev "is not a great writer, though a pleasant one", and ranked him fourth among nineteenth-century Russian prose writers, behind Tolstoy, Gogol, and Anton Chekhov, but ahead of Dostoyevsky. His idealistic ideas about love, specifically the devotion a wife should show her husband, were cynically referred to by characters in Chekhov's "An Anonymous Story."
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