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Re: oh, and Camilla Send a noteboard - 18/10/2010 12:09:10 AM
I was fascinated by Bazarov. In the beginning I took a very strong dislike to him. I really, really cannot stand the type. He is brash, he takes pleasure in dismissing things out of hand, without really backing that up with any sort of understanding. His only claim to authority is his lack of authority, and that really is ... bogus. I couldn't agree more with Pavel Petrovich's comment that

The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists.

I loved that comment as well, but not because of Bazarov. I got the impression that Turgenev was allowing Pavel to be right about some in the movement, but also to make him miss the mark on Bazarov. Even though I do agree that B was awful in the beginning, Turgenev was already teaching us that he was richer than that. (I decided conclusively when Sitnikov and Kukshina showed up - Turgenev gave us perfect examples to show the range.)


While I agree that Sitnikov and Kukshina are a step beyond Bazarov in absurdity, his comments that ``I share no one's opinions'', when it was pointed out that he took the view of Proudhon, and the truly nonsensical comment about families being useless because sometimes they didn't work right ... it points to his being nonsensical in much the same way. Early on. I notice he changes, but in the beginning, he is dreadful. He has more authority in his statements than the other two, but I am not sure he has more understanding (at that point -- and I must stress that).
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Russian Book Club: Fathers and Sons by Turgenev. Tom - 17/10/2010 01:39:16 AM 1056 Views
Bazarov Camilla - 17/10/2010 02:12:03 PM 879 Views
never mind *NM* Camilla - 17/10/2010 02:15:16 PM 365 Views
The novel is very interested in inter-generational issues. Tom - 17/10/2010 05:28:29 PM 774 Views
Re: The novel is very interested in inter-generational issues. Camilla - 17/10/2010 11:59:37 PM 858 Views
oh, and nossy - 17/10/2010 06:42:38 PM 768 Views
Re: oh, and Camilla - 18/10/2010 12:09:10 AM 746 Views
I like the way you said that nossy - 19/10/2010 05:31:05 AM 786 Views
Re: I like the way you said that Camilla - 19/10/2010 09:24:00 AM 738 Views
I had pretty much the same reaction as you. Rebekah - 22/10/2010 07:05:37 PM 815 Views
Arkady Camilla - 17/10/2010 02:15:54 PM 730 Views
Well, that makes sense Tom - 17/10/2010 05:12:09 PM 731 Views
Re: Well, that makes sense Camilla - 18/10/2010 12:04:05 AM 738 Views
According to a footnote in my (Dutch) copy... Legolas - 18/10/2010 10:55:22 PM 769 Views
Ясень and ясный Tom - 18/10/2010 11:41:24 PM 748 Views
See, I liked Arkady nossy - 17/10/2010 06:08:57 PM 667 Views
Re: See, I liked Arkady Camilla - 18/10/2010 12:13:49 AM 709 Views
hm. nossy - 18/10/2010 01:06:44 AM 813 Views
Re: hm. Camilla - 18/10/2010 11:46:23 AM 964 Views
Re: hm. nossy - 19/10/2010 05:38:02 AM 764 Views
Re: See, I liked Arkady Legolas - 18/10/2010 10:51:59 PM 715 Views
Re: Arkady Rebekah - 22/10/2010 07:09:14 PM 758 Views
Oh...Rebekah, I was going to mention that I saw your post only much later because I was very drunk. Tom - 17/10/2010 05:13:41 PM 757 Views
Heh, no worries. Rebekah - 18/10/2010 11:07:00 AM 690 Views
Good book. nossy - 17/10/2010 06:37:16 PM 783 Views
Agreed. Camilla - 18/10/2010 11:55:11 AM 853 Views
Re: Agreed. nossy - 19/10/2010 06:02:18 AM 778 Views
Re: Agreed. Camilla - 19/10/2010 09:26:25 AM 685 Views
I didn't think Odintsova trapped him. Legolas - 18/10/2010 11:03:37 PM 745 Views
Re: I didn't think Odintsova trapped him. Camilla - 18/10/2010 11:31:40 PM 818 Views
Re: I didn't think Odintsova trapped him. nossy - 19/10/2010 05:13:26 AM 749 Views
I think you might be overanalyzing the birch tree statement. Tom - 18/10/2010 11:45:12 PM 728 Views
I disagree nossy - 19/10/2010 05:27:07 AM 773 Views
I loved it. Great book. Legolas - 18/10/2010 10:49:27 PM 703 Views
Re: I loved it. Great book. Camilla - 18/10/2010 11:33:42 PM 687 Views
I think it's very relevant. It's also unusually un-Russian. Tom - 18/10/2010 11:54:03 PM 675 Views
Yeah... the Russian nobility at the time seems to have been kind of un-Russian, really. Legolas - 20/10/2010 04:03:34 PM 752 Views
It felt very Russian to me as well Camilla - 20/10/2010 04:12:50 PM 682 Views
There was little of the usual ... histrionics that happen in Russian novels. Rebekah - 22/10/2010 07:02:12 PM 739 Views
Most of the histrionics are Dostoevsky manifestations. Tom - 22/10/2010 10:52:52 PM 775 Views
I really wish I'd bought a properly annotated version. Rebekah - 22/10/2010 07:07:16 PM 781 Views
The answer to that is to just read a great book on Nineteenth Century Russian history. Tom - 22/10/2010 10:55:06 PM 755 Views
Can you recommend one? Rebekah - 22/10/2010 10:55:56 PM 1037 Views
"One" is where it starts to get harder. Tom - 23/10/2010 01:45:03 AM 772 Views
Not just Russian, though, there's a lot of mentions of other European history. Legolas - 22/10/2010 11:19:28 PM 700 Views
Nikolai and Pavel - I love them. Rebekah - 22/10/2010 07:14:11 PM 860 Views
Perhaps it's Pavel's "The Chap"-ish nature that makes the novel seem less Russian to me. Tom - 22/10/2010 10:53:56 PM 823 Views
Ah, that's a good point. Rebekah - 22/10/2010 10:54:56 PM 693 Views
The women Rebekah - 22/10/2010 07:18:45 PM 794 Views
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