Fathers and Children

Fathers and Children
Ivan Turgenev, Pasternak Slater Nicholas
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Paperback
h203 x 127mm - 256pg
23 Aug 2022 US
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9781681376356
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A 19th-century Russian masterpiece about love, politics, family, and the tension between the new generation and the old world. Ivan Turgenev' s Fathers and Children is a masterpiece not only of the nineteenth century but of the whole of Russian literature, a book full to bursting with life. It is a novel about the relationships between the young and the old; about love, families, politics, religion; about strong beliefs and heated disagreements, illness and death. It is about the clash between liberals and conservatives, revolutionaries and reactionaries. At the time of its publication in 1862, the book aroused indignation in its critics who felt betrayed by Turgenev' s refusal to let his novel serve a single ideology; it also received a spirited defense by those who saw in his diffuse sympathies a greater service to art and to humanity. Fathers and Children is not a practical manifesto but a lasting work of art and a timely book for our present age, newly and ably translated by Nicolas Pasternak Slater and Maya Slater.
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883) was born into a wealthy family of the Russian landed gentry and educated in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Berlin. He made his name as a writer with A Sportsman' s Sketches, an unvarnished picture of Russian country life that is said to have influenced Tsar Alexander II' s decision to liberate the serfs. In later years, Turgenev lived in Europe, returning only rarely to his native country. He was the author of poems, stories, plays, and six novels, the most celebrated of which include Fathers and Children, Rudin, Virgin Soil and On the Eve. Nicolas Pasternak Slater is a translator of Russian literature. He has translated work by Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Lermontov, Teffi, his uncle Boris Pasternak, and many others. Maya Slater is the author of the novel Mr. Darcy' s Diary and a senior research fellow at Queen Mary University of London. She was a lecturer on French literature at London University for more than three decades.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781681376356
Published: 23 Aug 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: NYRB Classics
Publisher: The New York Review of Books Inc
Format: Paperback
Height: 203mm
Width: 127mm
Pages: 256

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