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... by Vasily Grossman,
Dead Souls (Chichikov's Journey) by Nikolai Gogol,
Sketches from a Hunter's Album or Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev,
And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov,
Hope against Hope (non-fiction) by Nadezhda Mandelstam.
If you ... ... hoped for, but it was still interesting. I am having a last Russian fling (again, for the time being) with Turgenev's Fathers and Sons and Rudin, which are both very small. I recently finished The Way of All Flesh, and then read a fairly short book, Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons, which was decent but not amazing. ... tte
27. North and South
28. Adam Bede
29. The Woman in White
30. The Mill on the Floss
31. Silas Marner
32. Fathers and Sons
33. The Water-Babies
34. Crime and Punishment
35. The Last Chronicle of Barset
36. The Moonstone
37. Middlemarch
38. In a Glass Darkly
39 ... Fathers and Sons Ivan Turgenev
Night, Mother Kurt Vonnegut
Oedipus the King Sophocles
Autobiography of Mother Jones
Finding My Father Rod McKuen Fathers and Sons Ivan Turgenev
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
Sons and Lovers D.H. Lawrence
The Bourgeois Poet Karl Jay Shapiro
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert M. Pirsig
Bush's Brain James Moore ... different ways, in the heads of the characters rather than in the events surrounding them.
Thanks for your comments on Fathers and Sons. I look forward to that read. blackdogbooks,
First of all I particularly like Russian literature. I thought Fathers and Sons was a well written treatise on the universal experience of individuation and identity development, as revealed in the relationships between father and son. Both perspectives came through clearly. T ... Just got a copy of Fathers and Sons as it was on some of my 100 best lists. What did you think?
Also, what did you think of The Road? Finished Fathers and Sons.......#170 53 - Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
54 - The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides ... from Jerusalem with The Genizah at the House of Shepher by Tamar Yellin to the Russian countryside with Turgenev's Fathers and Sons, and am currently standing with in Texas with The Story of Forgetting by Stefan Merrill Block. There's no place like home! ... on a quick trip to Koln and Stuttgart, Germany I finished The Genizah at the House of Shepher by Tamar Yellin and Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev. I just started The Story of Forgetting by Stefan Merrill Block. Two BookMooch books arrived via the USPS:
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott ... thousand - L. Pirandello
32. The picture of Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde
33. Crime and punishment - F. Dostojevski
34. Fathers and sons - Toergenjev
35. Madame Bovary - G. Flaubert
36. Uncle Tom's cabin - H. Beecher Stowe
37. Wuthering heights - E. Bronte
38. Candide - Voltaire
... ...
Great Expectations and Hard Times
The Warden
Jayne Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Walden and Civil Disobedience
Fathers and Sons
Moby Dick and Bartleby the Scrivener and Benito Cerino and Billy Budd
Madame Bovary
Crime and Punishment
War and Peace and Master and Man ... ...
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Frankenstein
The Last of the Mohicans (long time ago)
Dead Souls
Wuthering Heights
Fathers and Sons
Great Expectations
Notes from the Underground
Crime and Punishment
The Idiot
The Possessed
Anna Karenina
Germinal (long ago)
Dr. Jeky ... ... The Most of P.G. Wodehouse
Sierra Nevada Natural History Tracy I. Storer
The Best of Simple Langston Hughes
Fathers and Sons Ivan Turgenev
I Have a Dream Martin Luther King
Honey, Hush! African American Humor Daryl Cumber Dance
Frommer's Sweden My favourite Russian novel would be a three-way tie between A Hero of Our Time, The Master and Margarita and Fathers and Sons. If I was forced to choose one book, I think it would be the Lermontov by a short head, but over his career, probably Lev Tolstoy as a novelist. In short fiction, ... In Fathers and Sons Turgenev addresses the generational differences in oppositional politics – in this particular case the fathers were the aristocratic liberals (of their age) and the sons were nihilist youth, but the particulars do not matter – the novel is to be read as a novel of ideas – ... #81
Dim memory recalls reading and enjoying Turgenev some quarter century ago. I checked my rotation schedule, and Fathers and Sons should come up for a rereading in 2083. I'll let you know then what I think. I was hoping for some statement of personal relevance from you in the meantime.
... ... point that I'm trying to make - we shouldn't tolerate the substitution of emotion for rational thought.
Makifat: read Fathers and Sons and draw your own conclusions.
BGP: read Snow, a re-working of Turgenev's Smoke - very interesting parallels, there. ... like I was forcing myself to read and not enjoying it at all. It's a shame, I know so many people who like it. I do love Fathers and Sons though. ... by Jorge Luis Borges
Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Non-Fiction:
The Rebel by Albert Camus
Revolt of the Masses by Jose Ortega y Gasset
The Orientalist by Tom Reiss
The Outsid ... At the moment I'm working on Fathers and Sons and The Idiot for school. The Idiot is a reread for me and I love it. I'm liking Fathers and Sons too though, a lot more than I expected to. On my own I'm reading The Old Curiosity Shop, although I'm finding I don't have a lot of time to devote to ... ... Avatar by Jacqueline Carey, which is a reread that I started a while ago and got distracted from, and am skimming Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev for a class since I read it only a year ago. ... I don't like depressing books, even if they're not that "difficult". I don't object to tragedy (I got through Turgenev's Fathers and Sons OK), but some authors should just get it out of their system and onto the paper, then burn the manuscript and not burden the rest of us with their gloom! Gi ... ... in Russian literature affect the status of scientific discourse in general (Chernyshevsky, What is to be done?; Turgenev, Father's and Sons; Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground; Chekhov, Stories)
What is to be said about the integration of science and the intelligentsia (Kropo ... The Golden Age by Kenneth Grahame
The Age of the Fathers by William Bright
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Sons and Lovers by D. H.Lawrence
Lovers and Liars by Sally Beauman ... With Father by Clarence Day
Daughter's Keeper by Ayelet Waldman
Shadow Child by Beth Powning
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Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev From my LT only:
Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
Fathers and Sons by Turgenev
The Seventh Son by Reay Tannahill
The Long Shadow: Inside Stalin's Family by Rosamond Richardson
Children of the Arbat by Anatoly Rybakov ... writing The Cossacks, and soon to begin work on War and Peace. Turgenev's best work was almost behind him, but his Fathers and Sons, which came out in 1862, created a firestorm and served to galvanize and focus all of the debates mentioned above. The book itself is really rather neutral ... Mother Courage by Bertold Brecht
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
My Naughty Little Sister by Dorothy Edwards&Shirley Hughes
Childe Harold by George Gordon Lord Byron
Could you clarify if the first line was just 'When father was a kid'
(I'm only guessing but could it be Fathers and sons by Turgenev?). Many years since I read it. ...
Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment, Brothers Karamazov
Tolstoy Anna Karenina, War and Peace
Turgenev Fathers and Sons
For pure character development, which to some nineteenth century writers was a raison d'etre try
Austen Pride and Prejudice, Emma
Nineteen ... ... criticised was that he was seen to siding with non-Russian ideas, as he spent much of his adulthood living abroad. (Fathers and Sons was not well-received in Russia when first published but was very successful elsewhere in Europe). ... of Dostoevksy, though some of that was doubtless amplified for satirical or socratic purposes. But Turgenev's Bazarov in Fathers and Sons is evidently a pretty accurate portrait of some of the young radicals around at the time he, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky were writing, and the sporadic utter ... ... Brothers Karamazov, but some would vote for Crime and Punishment or the Idiot. Turgenev's most famous novel is Fathers and Sons, but my favorites are the Sportsmen's Sketches aka Sketches from a Hunter's Album which were very popular in Russia and contributed to the freeing of the ... ... constance garnett and my favorites are sportsman's sketches which is said to have led to the emancipation of the serfs, fathers and sons, and spring torrents. However, Rudin and On the Eve are worth reading also to get a sense of his political attitudes. he had an illegitimate ... ... stuff I thought too. I read a lot of Turgenev about 10 years ago, and must also highly recommend his fine novel Fathers and Sons as well. Re: Re-reading Turgenev. I think I'm going to re-start with Fathers and Sons. From memory, it moved me tears. I read all these Russian and French authors in my teens and early twenties. Definitely time to dust them off.
I am still struggling through The Brothers Karamazov - fifteen years ... #3 Hera,
I've read Fathers and Sons by Turgenev and enjoyed it, and it looks like you have a copy of it in your library, so I suggest you give that one a go if you haven't already attempted it! ...
#100- Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken
50%- Tapestry of Lions by Jennifer Roberson
10%- Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (143 of 1427)
Last- An unshared book I just picked up on clearance from Amazon, Wolfwarrior by Bryan Foster There is an analysis of Fathers and Sons in Lectures on Russian Literature. It is a detailed literary analysis, interesting but difficult to boil down to a couple of lines. Elsewhere in the book, he lists the four greatest prose writers in Russian (in order) as - Tolstoy, Gogol, Chekhov & Turgen ... ... find Russian solutions to domestic problems.
What seems incredible now is, that Russian critics of the time did not like Fathers and Sons. My GCSE reading list (1986-88, when I was 14-16) included: Sons and Lovers, Fathers and Sons, Bliss, Macbeth, The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, Collected poems by Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Philip Larkin, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Lord of the Flies, Hard Times, ...
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