Fathers and Sons

Ivan Turgenev · 1862 CE · Novel · Russian · Victorian

Arkady brings his friend Bazarov home from university for the summer, and the young nihilist informs the older generation that their poetry, their principles and their manners are worth nothing. Then he meets a widow named Odintsova. Undone by the love he denied existed.

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• influenced by ↑ Eugene Onegin
  Alexander Pushkin · 1833 CE · Poem
• ↓ The Portrait of a Lady
  Henry James · 1881 CE · Novel — influenced by this
• ↓ The Rise of Silas Lapham
  William Dean Howells · 1885 CE · Novel — influenced by this
• ↓ Demons
  Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1872 CE · Novel — responds to this
• ↓ What Is to Be Done?
  Nikolai Chernyshevsky · 1863 CE · Novel — responds to this

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