Nicholas Pasternak Slater - Fathers And Children - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: A 19th - century Russian masterpiece about love politics family and the tension between the new generation and the old world. Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Children is a book full to bursting with life both comic and tragic. At the heart of this novel about love politics and society strong beliefs and heated disagreements illness and death is the generational divide between the young and the old. When the young university graduate Arkady and his mentor the nihilist Bazarov leave St. Petersburg to visit their aging parents in the provinces the conflict that ensues from the generations clashing views of the world the youths radicalism and the parents liberalism is both representative of nineteenth - century Russia and recognizably contemporary. At the time of its publication in 1862, the book aroused indignation in critics who felt betrayed by Turgenev's refusal to let his novel serve a single ideology; it also received a spirited defense by those who saw in his diffuse sympathies a greater service to art and to humanity. In this fresh new translation Nicolas Pasternak Slater and Maya Slater have captured Turgenev's subtle humor his pitch - perfect ear for dialogue his compassion and above all his skill as a storyteller
Title: Fathers And Children
Author(s): Nicholas Pasternak Slater
Publisher: The New York Review Of Books Inc
Barcode: 9781681376356
Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/23/2022
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction