Fathers and Sons

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818—1883) — an amazing, very Russian writer, whose talent was recognized by both his compatriots and great European poets and prose writers. «A keen and subtle observer, precise in detail, he portrays his characters like a poet... and painter. He is equally interested in their passions and the features of their faces… With great skill, he depicts the physical and moral aspects of phenomena, creating real pictures of reality…» — wrote Prosper Mérimée, author of «Carmen».

This book presents the most important facets of I.S. Turgenev's creativity. It includes the novel «Fathers and Sons&, short stories, and prose poems.
«My whole story is directed against the aristocracy as the advanced class. Look closely at the faces of Nikolai Petrovich, Pavel Petrovich, Arkady. Weakness and lethargy or limitedness», — thus Turgenev explains the concept of his novel. Moreover, he takes «precisely good representatives of the aristocracy», showing: «If the cream is bad, what is the milk?» Yevgeny Bazarov — the main character, a nihilist and a petty-bourgeois, opposing both liberal ideas and conservative ones. Intransigence and the priority of the useful over the beautiful — these are the two main principles of the young doctor who became a role model for the youth of the 1860s. Alien to everyone, Bazarov suddenly feels within himself that which he has renounced as useless — love.
 But can he be a slave to his passion?