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When a young graduate returns home he is accompanied, much to his father and uncle's discomfort, by a strange friend "who doesn't acknowledge any authorities, who doesn't accept a single principle on faith." Turgenev's masterpiece of generational conflict shocked Russian society... Read Full Overview

Turgenev's timeless tale of generational collision, in a sparkling new translation

The English rendition of the title of this novel has been problematic since the book's publication in 1862. In his prefatory note to the Second Edition, Katz explains his decision to return to the original title, the one preferred by the author himself: Ottsy i deti , literally... Read Full Overview

A 19th-century Russian masterpiece about love, politics, family, and the tension between the new generation and the old world.

The English rendition of the title of this novel has been problematic since the book's publication in 1862. In his prefatory note to the Second Edition, Katz explains his decision to return to the original title, the one preferred by the author himself: Ottsy i deti, literally... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

Fathers and Sons is a major work of nineteenth-century fiction and one of the most acclaimed Russian novels of all time. The story follows the relationships between a father, his sons Pavel and Arkady, and Arkady's nihilist friend Bazarov. Against the backdrop of a growing cultural... Read Full Overview

I.S.Turgenev - imja unikal'noe dazhe v zolotoj plejade klassikov russkoj prozy XIX veka. Jeto pisatel', ch'e bezuprechnoe literaturnoe masterstvo sootnositsja so stol' zhe bezuprechnym znaniem chelovecheskoj dushi. Turgenev obogatil russkuju literaturu samymi plenitel'nymi zhenskimi... Read Full Overview

Ivan Turgenev's classic novel (also known as "Fathers and Children"), featuring Eugene Bazarov, thought to be the "first Bolshevik" in Russian literature. The novel explores the changing times and clash of generations in Russia during the period between Russia's defeat in the... Read Full Overview

One of the grestest of the classic Russian novels, this universal tale of generational conflict is set at a moment of historic social upheaval, just before the emancipation of the serfs in 1861.

This Critical Edition of Fathers and Sons, translated and edited by Michael R. Katz, is accompanied by a selection of Turgenev's letters, illustrating his involvement in the critical storm that surrounded Fathers and Sons upon its publication in 1862. It also includes 16 critical... Read Full Overview

After graduating from the University of Petersburg, Arkady Kirsanov returns home to his father, Nikolay, with his friend, Bazarov. But Nikolay's brother, Pavel, soon becomes upset by the strange new philosophy called "nihilism" which the young men, especially Bazarov, advocate... Read Full Overview

With an introduction by Rosamund Bartlett and an afterword by Tatiana Tolstaya Turgenev's depiction of the conflict between generations and their ideals stunned readers when Fathers and Sons was first published in 1862. But many could also sympathize with Arkady's fascination... Read Full Overview

Fathers and Sons (1862), Turgenev's masterpiece, represents in its hero, Bazarov, 'the new man', a nihilist liberated from age-old conformities and at odds with the previous generation, questioning the very fabric of society. A novel of ideas, Fathers and Sons is also a moving... Read Full Overview