ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1977
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Ivan Turgenev - Fathers and Sons / A Nest of the Gentry
Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1977
416 str.
tvrdi povez
stanje: dobro
Translated from the Russian by Bernard Isaacs ; illustrated by Konstantin Rudakov

Bazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his friend Arkady Kirsanov. But soon Bazarov’s outspoken rejection of authority and social conventions touches off quarrels, misunderstandings, and romantic entanglements that will utterly transform the Kirsanov household and reflect the changes taking place all across nineteenth-century Russia.

Fathers and Sons enraged the old and the young, reactionaries, romantics, and radicals alike when it was first published. At the same time, Turgenev won the acclaim of Flaubert, Maupassant, and Henry James for his craftsmanship as a writer and his psychological insight. Fathers and Sons is now considered one of the world’s greatest novels.

A timeless depiction of generational conflict during social upheaval, it vividly portrays the clash between the older Russian aristocracy and the youthful radicalism that foreshadowed the revolution to come—and offers modern-day readers much to reflect upon as they look around at their own tumultuous, ever changing world.

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`Home of the Gentry` is a novel by Ivan Turgenev published in the January 1859 issue of `Sovremennik`. It was enthusiastically received by the Russian society and remained his least controversial and most widely-read novel until the end of the 19th century. It was turned into a movie by Andrey Konchalovsky in 1969.

The novel`s protagonist is Fyodor Ivanych Lavretsky, a nobleman who shares many traits with Turgenev. The child of a distant, Anglophile father and a serf mother who dies when he is very young, Lavretsky is brought up at his family`s country estate home by a severe maiden aunt, often thought to be based on Turgenev`s own mother who was known for her cruelty.


Fiction, Classics, Ivan Sergejevič Turgenjev