You liked this book ?

>>9798077
it was decent

It's ok. Not nearly as good as I expected though.

>>9798077
Very much, yes

>>9798077
I liked the themes, and the translation of his writing style. But it does seem like an 18th century Freedom by Jonathan Franzen now that I understand a bit more about Russian nihilism from that period.

>>9798077
It simultaneously brought me into nihilism and back out a few years later. Great book.

R.I.P. Bazarov

>>9798077
Yes, can't comment on the translation.

Not as good as Demons. Dostoyevsky and Turgenev seem to have seen different things in "nihilism," though. I think Dostoyevsky was right, ultimately, but Turgenev is more even handed and generally sober as an author (and man, but w/e, you don't read the greats just because they were such swell fellows).

Reading right now.
Actually I finish it now, only got like 30 pages left. Will report in later.

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This second to last paragraph here by Bazarov's mother is very nice.

>>9798077
I did but I liked A Sportsman's Sketches better.

>>9798077
It's amazing.
Go read it if you haven't already.

>>9799187
Gosh, it's so insipid and different compared to the Russian.

>>9799288
Wanna spend 20 min and give a more honest translation perhaps?
Or is that just not possible?

>>9798077
It's one of the best early Russian Romantic novels. 10/10 should read.

>>9799571
>Or is that just not possible?
You're right, it's not possible - too different languages.

I'm russian and don't like it.

It's one of my favorites.

>>9798962
I felt the opposite. I felt Turgenev handled it way better, essentially calling it an edgy teenage phase. Was good that Bazarov grew up. Bad he died.

>>9799152
>Finally got to it.

Just curious: What do Russians mean by "he had a german face".
What is a german face to Russians, especially at that time?

>>9801028
Germans all over St. Petersburg at the time.

>>9799288
He was Flaubert's buddy, so I imagine he's quite an aesthete, or serious stylist.