Fathers and Sons Full Audiobook by Ivan TURGENEV by General Fiction
SUBSCRIBE HERE TO OUR CHANNEL. FRESH CONTENT UPLOADED DAILY. Fathers and Sons Ivan TURGENEV (1818 1883), translated by Richard HARE ( ) The fathers and children of the novel refers to the growing divide between the two generations of Russians, and the character Yevgeny Bazarov has been referred to as the first Bolshevik, for his nihilism and rejection of the old order. Turgenev wrote Fathers and Sons as a response to the growing cultural schism that he saw between liberals of the 1830s, 1840s and the growing nihilist movement. Both the nihilists (the sons ) and the 1830s liberals sought Westernbased social change in Russia. Additionally, these two modes of thought were contrasted with the conservative Slavophiles, who believed that Russia s path lay in its traditional spirituality. Fathers and Sons might be regarded as the first wholly modern novel in Russian Literature (Gogol s Dead Souls, another main contender, is some
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