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Fathers and Sons
$14.00
Roxanne says: A timeless novel is the themes of older generations wanting their experience respected vs. the younger generation who sees the world through a different, more jaded binary lens. The push and pull with parents trying to stay hip in order to foster closeness with their offspring and the latter wanting freedom to discover their own lives yet harboring guilt over their aging depressive parents.
This new translation by Richard Freeborn makes Turgenev's masterpiece about the conflict between generations seem as fresh, outspoken, and exciting as it was to those readers who first encountered its famous hero. The controversial portrayal of Bazarov, the 'nihilist' or 'new man', shocked Russian society when the novel was published in 1862. The image of humanity liberated by science from age-old conformities and prejudices is one that can threaten establishments of any political or religious persuasion, and is especially potent at the present time. Richard Freeborn is the first translator to have had access to Turgenev's working manuscript. An appendix contains the first English translation of some of Turgenev's preparatory sketches for the novel.