Fathers and Sons

Description

Bazarov comes home with Arkady and will not bow. Hear Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons unabridged in English: nihilism at the Kirsanov estate, frogs and force against drawing-room honour, Pavel’s pride heading for a duel. Anna Odintsova looks at the young doctor’s son and does not melt into a doctrine. Spoken Russia of the 1860s — fathers who still believe in the house, sons who believe in dissection. Listen to a generation arguing across a table, then to love and infection testing the theory. A novel of ideas you can hear, and a death that will not stay theoretical. Not a pamphlet. The clash as conversation. Fenichka in the garden, Arkady’s softer conversion, Bazarov’s parents waiting in a small house with a grave at the end of the argument. Listen to nihilism meet ordinary love and a typhus that does not care about systems.