Fathers and Sons (Annotated)

Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons (1862) is a lucid, penetrating novel of generational conflict in mid-nineteenth-century Russia, centered on the nihilist Bazarov and his uneasy encounters with landowning liberalism, romantic feeling, and social decay. Written in Turgenev's characteristically restrained, elegant prose, the book balances psychological subtlety with political immediacy. Its realism s...