Fathers and Sons by Ivan TURGENEV (1818 - 1883), translated by Richard HARE ( - )
Genre(s): General Fiction
Read by: Roger Melin in English
Parts:
Part 2 [ Ссылка ]
Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - Chapter 01
00:09:49 - 02 - Chapter 02
00:14:57 - 03 - Chapter 03
00:29:38 - 04 - Chapter 04
00:41:13 - 05 - Chapter 05
00:57:30 - 06 - Chapter 06
01:05:36 - 07 - Chapter 07
01:22:30 - 08 - Chapter 08
01:41:22 - 09 - Chapter 09
01:49:28 - 10 - Chapter 10
02:22:01 - 11 - Chapter 11
02:32:54 - 12 - Chapter 12
02:46:34 - 13 - Chapter 13
03:02:36 - 14 - Chapter 14
03:15:21 - 15 - Chapter 15
03:27:18 - 16 - Chapter 16
03:54:10 - 17 - Chapter 17
04:23:49 - 18 - Chapter 18
04:37:08 - 19 - Chapter 19
04:56:42 - 20 - Chapter 20
05:26:04 - 21 - Chapter 21
06:09:49 - 22 - Chapter 22
06:25:05 - 23 - Chapter 23
06:43:07 - 24 - Chapter 24
The fathers and children of the novel refers to the growing divide between the two generations of Russians, and the character Yevgeny Bazarov has been referred to as the 'first Bolshevik', for his nihilism and rejection of the old order.Turgenev wrote Fathers and Sons as a response to the growing cultural schism that he saw between liberals of the 1830s/1840s and the growing nihilist movement. Both the nihilists (the 'sons') and the 1830s liberals sought Western-based social change in Russia. Additionally, these two modes of thought were contrasted with the conservative Slavophiles, who believed that Russia's path lay in its traditional spirituality.Fathers and Sons might be regarded as the first wholly modern novel in Russian Literature (Gogol's Dead Souls, another main contender, is sometimes referred to as a poem or epic in prose as in the style of Dante's Divine Comedy). The novel introduces a dual character study, as seen with the gradual breakdown of Bazarov's and Arkady's nihilistic opposition to emotional display, especially in the case of Bazarov's love for Madame Odintsova and Fenichka. This prominent theme of character duality and deep psychological insight would exert an influence on most of the great Russian novels to come, most obviously echoed in the novels of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.The novel is also the first Russian work to gain prominence in the Western world, eventually gaining the approval of well established novelists Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant, and Henry James, proving that Russian literature owes much to Ivan Turgenev. (Summary from Wikipedia)
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