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Best books to read after Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
If you loved Turgenev's portrait of nihilism and generational conflict, these picks explore the Russian intelligentsia, political idealism, and the superfluous man across the nineteenth century.
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Rudin
by Ivan Turgenev
Turgenev's first novel and the template for Bazarov — the eloquent idealist who cannot act.
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Home of the Gentry
by Ivan Turgenev
Turgenev at his most lyrical — Lavretsky's return to Russia and the life that passed him by.
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Oblomov
by Ivan Goncharov
The superfluous man taken to his logical extreme — a man who cannot leave his sofa.
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Dead Souls
by Nikolai Gogol
Gogol's satirical masterpiece of provincial Russia — the absurdity of a society built on serfdom.
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Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dostoevsky's answer to Turgenev's nihilism — the underground man who refuses all rational schemes.
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What Is to Be Done?
by Nikolai Chernyshevsky
The radical novel Bazarov's generation actually believed in — and that Dostoevsky wrote Notes from Underground to refute.
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Virgin Soil
by Ivan Turgenev
Turgenev's final major novel — the Populist generation going to the people, and failing.
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On the Eve
by Ivan Turgenev
Elena choosing a Bulgarian revolutionary over passive Russian men — the bridge between Rudin and Fathers and Sons.
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