by Iwan S. Turgenjew · Insel, Frankfurt · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783458317647
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«Väter und Söhne» is the novel by Russian writer Iwan S. Turgenjew, published by Insel, Frankfurt, in paperback (298 pages, in German).
Set in Russia in 1859, the novel pits parents attached to tradition against their nihilist children. Young Bazárov, invited to the estate of his friend Arkadi, questions art, love and institutions, and his ideas clash with the rural aristocracy. It portrays the generational conflict at the time of the abolition of serfdom.
Original Russian title: «Отцы и дети». The novel was published in 1862. This edition is volume 64 of Insel Taschenbuch, with a German translation authorised by Turgenjew and published in 1869.
For readers of Russian classics and nineteenth-century European literature interested in the conflict between generations and nihilist thought.
