And once more, just like with Notes from the Underground, highly relevant still to modern readers. Generation gaps, the radical certainty of youth giving way to a gradual acceptance of the bourgeois mentality they despised, it's all very sixties.

It makes sense for Bazarov to die young, I suppose in a way it was a long way coming. More than for him I felt sad for his parents, though - his uneasiness and embarrassment at his mixed feelings for his parents, of love, shame, looking down on them and being ashamed of that too, and his parents' feelings in return, those are all very well done.