Fathers and Children

Аннотация:
Fathers and Children, arguably the first modern novel in the history of Russian literature, shocked readers when it was first published in 1862 — the controversial character of Bazarov, a self-proclaimed “nihilist” intent on rejecting all existing traditional values and institutions, providing a trenchant critique of the established order. Turgenev’s masterpiece investigates the growing nihilist movement of mid-nineteenthcentury Russia — a theme which was to influence Dostoevsky and many other European writers — in a universal and often hilarious story of generational conflict and the clash between the old and the new.