Description
Considered one of Ivan Turgenev's finest works, 'Fathers and Sons' was the the first of the great nineteenth-century Russian novels to achieve international renown. A stirring tale of generational conflict during a period of social revolution, it vividly depicts the friction between liberal and conservative thought and the rise of the radical new philosophy of nihilism. Set in Russia during the 1860's against the backdrop of the liberation of the serfs , the story concerns the crash of older aristocrats with the new democratic intelligentsia. It tells the story of 2 friends, Arkady Kirsanoff and Bazarov. The young friends, bored by the rustic life in the Kirsanoff state , venture off to the provincial capital in search of amusement . There they encounter both romance and alienation.
