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Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev6/22/2023 Tension barely disquiets the mundane surface of the faraway rural Russia but with the arrival of two cynical young men who set out to transform Russia is about to change that. They were warmly received by Arkady’s father Nikolay, but his uncle Pavel wasn’t too keen on Evgeny’s advocacies. It is in this same spirit that he tried to preach to his friend, Arkady Kirsanov.Īfter graduating from the university, Evgeny and Arkady traveled to Arkady’s family estate in the Russian countryside. His advocacy led hem to abhor all social institutions and norms. Bazarov is a swept by the newly born philosophy called nihilism. In Fathers and Sons, Turgenev introduces the readers to Evgeny Bazarov, a young upstart revolutionary man who studied in the major urban centers of Russia. Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was no different from his countrymen, as can be gleaned from his Fathers and Sons. Through their works, it is easy to glean how the Russian society, and culture, in general, is abound with a flurry of different ideals and philosophies which has influenced the flow of tides in this historic nation. The seminal works of Tolstoy, Bulgakov, Dostoyevsky, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn and a whole lot more, give one an intimate peek into the stoic and enigmatic Russian society and culture. Navigating through the labyrinths of Russian literature is an adventure like no other.
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