Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (Отцы и дети)

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (Отцы и дети)


Fathers and Sons is an 1862 novel by Ivan Turgenev. A facinating book about two generations of Russians, and the character Yevgeny Bazarov has been referred to as the "first Bolshevik", because he says he follows nihilism all the time. He also trys to reject the old order. Personally I don't like this character, in his intellectual world he fails to recognize that he is very mediocre, due to the pyseudo science he preaches as true and his morally individualistic character.

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.