Discuss the representation of the generation of fathers in Turgenev’s novel “Fathers and Sons”
Discuss the representation of the generation of fathers in Turgenev's novel "Fathers
and Sons"
Turgenev always had two tasks before him to depict the body and pressure of time, and to
depict the rapidly changing face of cultured Russian society (Freeborn 1960:48). Kluchevsky
(1993:40) defined one case of the generation gap in the beginning of the XIX century as
"merry cosmopolitan sentimentality of the fathers now transformed in a patriotic grief of
their children. The Fathers were Russians, who passionately wanted to become French; the
sons were raised as French and passionately wanted to become Russians. Fathers and
Sons situates this generational conflict within family relations. In this essay, the ways how
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