You need to sign in or sign up before continuing.

armchairlit 's review for:

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
4.0

hmmm I get the feeling that Turgenev wasn’t a big fan of
Spoiler nihilists


This book is great and objectively probably deserves 5 stars but it just doesn’t quite fulfill all my requirements for a personal 5 star book.

The story is told through the exploration of two young men (Arkady and Yevgeny Bazarov and their ideologies and families. Throughout the book, you meet various characters that represent several archetypes of Russian society and the clashing of ideologies at the time (e.g. a traditional liberal, a modern liberal, a traditional noble, nihilists, etc)