Ivan Turgenev, Ottsy i deti [Fathers and Children; Fathers and Sons]

Richard Peace (University of Bristol)

Ed. by Neil Cornwell, University of Bristol
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.1.00: Slavic and Russian Writing and Culture: Old, Medieval and Tsarist, 700-1917.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1862

Places

Russia (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

Ottsy i deti [Fathers and Children, or Fathers and Sons] was first published in 1862, during a period of great reform in Russia and the emergence of a new radical force: a more strident younger generation led by such figures as Chernyshevsky, Dobroliubov and Pisarev. The idea for the novel appears to have originated in 1860, while Turgenev was staying on the Isle of Wight, and – according to the author himself – Bazarov, his chief protagonist, was inspired by a meeting with a young, unnamed (and unidentified) provincial doctor, who had subsequently died. Young radicals, however, saw Bazarov as a polemical portrait of their hero Dobroliubov, who had also died recently at a young age.

The plot moves …

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Citation: Peace, Richard. "Ottsy i deti". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 12 November 2004 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=11252, accessed 23 April 2024.]

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