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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 1158 Views
Bazarov Camilla - 17/10/2010 02:12:03 PM 983 Views
never mind *NM* Camilla - 17/10/2010 02:15:16 PM 410 Views
The novel is very interested in inter-generational issues. Tom - 17/10/2010 05:28:29 PM 882 Views
Re: The novel is very interested in inter-generational issues. Camilla - 17/10/2010 11:59:37 PM 974 Views
oh, and nossy - 17/10/2010 06:42:38 PM 861 Views
Re: oh, and Camilla - 18/10/2010 12:09:10 AM 847 Views
I like the way you said that nossy - 19/10/2010 05:31:05 AM 885 Views
Re: I like the way you said that Camilla - 19/10/2010 09:24:00 AM 833 Views
I had pretty much the same reaction as you. Rebekah - 22/10/2010 07:05:37 PM 899 Views
Arkady Camilla - 17/10/2010 02:15:54 PM 812 Views
Well, that makes sense Tom - 17/10/2010 05:12:09 PM 818 Views
Re: Well, that makes sense Camilla - 18/10/2010 12:04:05 AM 830 Views
According to a footnote in my (Dutch) copy... Legolas - 18/10/2010 10:55:22 PM 848 Views
Ясень and ясный Tom - 18/10/2010 11:41:24 PM 834 Views
See, I liked Arkady nossy - 17/10/2010 06:08:57 PM 762 Views
Re: See, I liked Arkady Camilla - 18/10/2010 12:13:49 AM 810 Views
hm. nossy - 18/10/2010 01:06:44 AM 911 Views
Re: hm. Camilla - 18/10/2010 11:46:23 AM 1067 Views
Re: hm. nossy - 19/10/2010 05:38:02 AM 854 Views
Re: See, I liked Arkady Legolas - 18/10/2010 10:51:59 PM 824 Views
Re: Arkady Rebekah - 22/10/2010 07:09:14 PM 885 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 844 Views
Heh, no worries. Rebekah - 18/10/2010 11:07:00 AM 782 Views
Good book. nossy - 17/10/2010 06:37:16 PM 879 Views
Agreed. Camilla - 18/10/2010 11:55:11 AM 970 Views
Re: Agreed. nossy - 19/10/2010 06:02:18 AM 871 Views
Re: Agreed. Camilla - 19/10/2010 09:26:25 AM 778 Views
I didn't think Odintsova trapped him. Legolas - 18/10/2010 11:03:37 PM 837 Views
Re: I didn't think Odintsova trapped him. Camilla - 18/10/2010 11:31:40 PM 915 Views
Re: I didn't think Odintsova trapped him. nossy - 19/10/2010 05:13:26 AM 858 Views
I think you might be overanalyzing the birch tree statement. Tom - 18/10/2010 11:45:12 PM 831 Views
I disagree nossy - 19/10/2010 05:27:07 AM 880 Views
I loved it. Great book. Legolas - 18/10/2010 10:49:27 PM 803 Views
Re: I loved it. Great book. Camilla - 18/10/2010 11:33:42 PM 780 Views
I think it's very relevant. It's also unusually un-Russian. Tom - 18/10/2010 11:54:03 PM 772 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 859 Views
It felt very Russian to me as well Camilla - 20/10/2010 04:12:50 PM 769 Views
There was little of the usual ... histrionics that happen in Russian novels. Rebekah - 22/10/2010 07:02:12 PM 832 Views
Most of the histrionics are Dostoevsky manifestations. Tom - 22/10/2010 10:52:52 PM 876 Views
I really wish I'd bought a properly annotated version. Rebekah - 22/10/2010 07:07:16 PM 867 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 857 Views
Can you recommend one? Rebekah - 22/10/2010 10:55:56 PM 1122 Views
"One" is where it starts to get harder. Tom - 23/10/2010 01:45:03 AM 861 Views
Not just Russian, though, there's a lot of mentions of other European history. Legolas - 22/10/2010 11:19:28 PM 789 Views
Nikolai and Pavel - I love them. Rebekah - 22/10/2010 07:14:11 PM 955 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 924 Views
Ah, that's a good point. Rebekah - 22/10/2010 10:54:56 PM 791 Views
The women Rebekah - 22/10/2010 07:18:45 PM 886 Views
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