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Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (1862)
This week, we travel to 1860s Russia to dissect Ivan Turgenev's highly controversial and intensely debated 1862 novel, Fathers and Sons (Otsy i deti). The story centers on the return of Arkady Kirsanov to his family estate, accompanied by his brilliant, arrogant, and iconoclastic friend, Yevgeny Bazarov. Bazarov is the embodiment of a new, radical intellectual movement known as Nihilism, which fiercely rejects all traditional authority, aesthetic values, sentimentalism, and romanticism, accepting only scientific fact and material utility. . We explore the profound and tragic conflict between…
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