Turgenev to me is the greatest writer there ever was. Ernest Hemingway Arguably the first modern novel in the history of Russian literature, this story shocked readers when it was first published in 1862 the controversial character of Bazarov, a self-proclaimed nihilist intent on rejecting all existing traditional values and institutions, providing a trenchant critique of the established order. Turgenev s masterpiece investigates the growing nihilist movement of mid-19th-century Russia a theme which was to influence Dostoevsky and many other European writers in a universal, and often hilarious, story of generational conflict and the clash between the old and the new. This edition includes pictures and an extensive section about the author's life and works.
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The character of Barzarov, the radical intellectual, moves like a storm cloud through this sensuous, beautifully paced account of provincial Russia in the period just before the Great Emancipation of the serfs in 1861. Turgenev's greatest literary creation is as compelling and as enigmatic as the country whose passions he so vividly represents.
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- PublisherOneworld Classics
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1847491456
- ISBN 13 9781847491459
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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