Sixteen critical essays are organized around several themes: the issue of translation; politics, including Turgenev's liberalism, view of revolution, and attitude toward nihilism: and various Litcrary aspects, including Turgenev's use of imagery, the role of women, the conflict of generations, and the impact of science.

Michael R. Katz presents Turgenev's greatest and uhimately most important novel in an acclaimed new translation. It captures a world on the brink of change, subtle psychological confrontations among powerful fictional characters, and the gracefulness of' the author's poetic imagination. This new version of Fathers and So·zs will be welcomed by general readers and scholars alike.

The novel is accompanied by a rich selection of Turgenev's letters,illustrating his involvement in the critical storm that surrounded thers and Sons upon its publication in 1862. Four of the most significant critiques of the day further enhance the reader's understanding of this public controversy. Sixteen critical essays are organized around several themes: the issue of translation; politics, including Turgenev's liberalism, view of revolution, and attitude toward nihilism: and various Litcrary aspects, including Turgenev's use of imagery, the role of women, the conflict of generations, and the impact of science.

A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.ABOUT THE SERIES: Each Norton Critical Edition includes an authoritative text, contextual and source materials, and a wide range of interpretations--from contemporary perspectives to the most current critical theory--as well as a bibliography and, in many cases, a chronology of the author's life and work.

Preface

The Text of Fathers and Sons

The Author on the Novel

 Ivan Turgenev·Apropos of Fathers and Sons

 From Turgenev's Letters

 P. V. Annenkov to Turgenev, September 26

 (October 9), 1861

 To P. V. Annenkov, October 1 (13), 1861

 To M. N. Katkov, October 1 (13), 1861

 To M. N. Katkov, October 27 (November 8), 1861

 To M. N. Katkov, October 30 (November 11), 1861

 To F. M. Dostoevsky, Mareh 18 (30), 1862

 To A. N. Maykov, March 18 (30), 1862

 To A. A. Fet, March 19 (31), 1862

 To A. A. Fet, April 6 (18), 1862

 To K. K. Sluchevsky, April 14 (26), 1862

 A. I. Herzen to Turgenev, April 9 (21), 1862

 To A. I. Herzen, April 16 (28), 1862

 To Ludwig Pietsch, January 22 (February 3), 1869

 To Ludwig Pietsch, May 22 (June 3), 1869

 To P. V. Annenkov, December 20, 1869 (January 1, 1870)

 To Ya. P. Polonsky, December 24, 1869 (January 5, 1870)

 To I. P. Borisov, December 24, 1869 (January 5, 1870)

 To A. F. Onegin, December 27, 1869 (January 8, 1870)

 To A. P. Filosofov, August 18 (30), 1874

 To A. P. Filosofov, September 11 (23), 1874

 To M. E. Saltykov, January 3 (15), 1876

 To A. V. Topomv, November 26 (December 8), 1882

The Contemporary Reaction

 Dmitry I. Pisarev·Bazarov

 N. N. Strakhov·Fathers and Sons

 Apollon Grigorev·[Nihilists]

 Alexander Herzen·Bazarov Once Again

Criticism

 Edmund Wilson·[On Translating Turgenevl

 Sir Isaiah Berlin·Fathers and Children: Turgenev and the

 Liberal Predicament

 Ralph E. Matlaw·Fathers and Sons

 Irving Howe·The Politics of Hesitation

 Richard Freeborn·Turgenev and Revolution

 Richard Stites·Nihilism and Women

 Jane Cosflow·[Odintseva's Bath and Bazarov's Dogs]

 Elizabeth Cheresh Allen·[Time in the Novel]

 Michael R. Katz·Fathers and Sons (and Daughters)

 Gary Saul Morson·Two Kinds of Love

 Kathryn Feuer·Fathers and Sons: Fathers and Children

 David A. Lowe·The Dialectics of Turgenev's Ottsy ideti

 Mikhail Bakhtin·[On Characters' Language]

 Michael Holquist·Bazarov and Se·enov: The Role of

 Scientific Metaphor in Fathers and Sons

 Donald Fanger·The Influence of Dostoevsky and

 Chekhov on Turgenev's Fathers and Sons

 Robert L. Jackson·The Turgenev Question

Ivan Turgenev: A Chronology

Selected Bibliography