A young nihilist scorns the older generation's ideals until love and death humble him. Turgenev's landmark novel of Russia's generational conflict.
Books mentioned in Fathers and Sons (4)
The Gypsies by Alexander Pushkin: “as I was reading Pushkin (I think it was 'The Gipsies' that I had lighted upon), there suddenly entered the room Arkady.”
The Streltsy by Konstantin Masalsky: “Paul Petrovitch took up a greasy, dog's-eared volume of Masalsky's _The Strielitsi_, and turned over a few of its pages.”
Notions Generales de Chimie by Theophile-Jules Pelouse and Edmond Fremy: “You had better read through _Notions Générales de Chimie_, by Pelouse and Frémy. It is an excellent work, and clearly written--the very thing you want.”
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence: ““Fathers and Sons, by Turgenev,” said the little foreigner, pronouncing every syllable distinctly.”
Why Read the Classics by Italo Calvino: “Title essay: 'Turgenev's Fathers and Sons'”
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri: “he had read pages of The Brothers Karamazov, and Anna Karenina, and Fathers and Sons.”
The Rebel by Albert Camus: “the very term nihilism was invented by Turgeniev in his novel Fathers and Sons, whose hero, Bazarov, was an exact portrayal of this type of man.”
Gai-Jin by James Clavell: “He picked up the advance copy of Turgenev's Fathers and Sons in Russian sent to him by a friend at the Court of St.”
The Uses of Literature by Italo Calvino: “Paired with Dostoyevsky's The Possessed in the same passage about recurring character types”