Father and Son (turgenev's Novel)
by Turgenev
About This Novel
"Fathers and Sons" was created in 1861. This representative work of Turgenev added the substance of "new man" to the image of "superfluous man" in the Russian literature gallery, or it was the first "new man" image with the characteristics of "superfluous man" - Bazarov. It also contributed a philosophical term - nihilism - to the history of human thought. The novels "Father and Son", "Rodin", "The Night Before", "Noble House", "Virgin Land" and "Smoke" constitute Turgenev's six most famous novels. They constitute Turgenev's six most famous novels. They are called "artistic chronicles of Russian society" because they continuously reflect the dramatic changes in Russian society. At the same time, they incorporate dramatic and strong love themes into social descriptions, and in terms of writing skills, they focus on Turgenev's literary level in his mature period of creation.
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Official(1)Scraped 16d ago
I feel that "Fathers and Sons" should be regarded as the most realistic among Turgenev's novels, and the psychological description content in this book should be the least (except "Hunter's Notes"); although the overall story structure is still poetic. I have always been shocked that Russian writers can describe so many characters in one novel, and there are many in this book. It's just that the fictional character Bazarov, the protagonist, always feels like a fiction and not real. However, this can be said to be easy to see in Turgenev's novels, but I think there should be nothing better than this. Therefore, everyone says that Turgenev is a poetic realist writer. This book was translated by Ba Jin. I used to think that Mr. Ba Jin was, as he said, a novelist, not a litterateur. Will be weak in literature or writing. But when reading this book, I feel that it is at least modern and elegant, which is much more comfortable than the translations of other Turgenev novels I have read in recent months. As for whether it is "faithful" or not, we ordinary readers have not read the original text, so we have no way of knowing.
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Official(1)Scraped 16d ago
I feel that "Fathers and Sons" should be regarded as the most realistic among Turgenev's novels, and the psychological description content in this book should be the least (except "Hunter's Notes"); although the overall story structure is still poetic. I have always been shocked that Russian writers can describe so many characters in one novel, and there are many in this book. It's just that the fictional character Bazarov, the protagonist, always feels like a fiction and not real. However, this can be said to be easy to see in Turgenev's novels, but I think there should be nothing better than this. Therefore, everyone says that Turgenev is a poetic realist writer. This book was translated by Ba Jin. I used to think that Mr. Ba Jin was, as he said, a novelist, not a litterateur. Will be weak in literature or writing. But when reading this book, I feel that it is at least modern and elegant, which is much more comfortable than the translations of other Turgenev novels I have read in recent months. As for whether it is "faithful" or not, we ordinary readers have not read the original text, so we have no way of knowing.
