Subject Area
Literature
Description
The character of Bazarov in Turgenev¹s Fathers and Sons has a complicated relationship with Russia's Nihilist movement. I present a history of the movement and compare three scholarly understandings of Bazarov's peculiar nihilism. I claim that despite Bazarov¹s monumental importance for the Nihilist movement he fails to be a perfect Nihilist in many ways, and furthermore that it is precisely these imperfections that make Bazarov such an attractive and sympathetic character.
Publisher
Providence College
Date
Spring 2014
Type
Article
Format
Text
.pdf (text under image)
Language
English
