Fathers and Sons

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818—1883) is an amazing, very Russian writer whose talent was recognized by both his compatriots and great European poets and prose writers. "A sharp and subtle observer, precise to the details, he depicts his heroes like a... poet and painter. He is equally interested in their passions and the features of their faces… With great artistry, he paints the physical and moral sides 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.
"All my story is aimed against the nobility as a progressive class. Look closely at the faces of Nikolai Petrovich, Pavel Petrovich, Arkady. Weakness and lethargy or limitedness," — this is how Turgenev explains the concept of his novel. Moreover, he takes "precisely good representatives of the nobility", showing: "If the cream is bad, what is the milk?" Yevgeny Bazarov is the main character, a nihilist and lower-class individual who stands against both liberal ideas and conservative ones. The uncompromising nature and the priority of the useful over the beautiful 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 previously renounced as useless — love. But can he be a slave to his passion?