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Ivan Turgenev

I really enjoyed "First Love," a supposedly autobiographical, coming-of-age piece. I really enjoy such intensely personal novels, when written with the exquisite economy Turgenev employs.
Linda Collison/Star-Crossed (Alfred A. Knopf)
 
Fathers and Sons just didn't enthrall me. If this is the origin of Nihilism, then I don't see what's all the fuss about. Bazarov's philosophy doesn't seem particularly threatening, fascinating or repulsive. It's just... just.

Hardly seem slike the Great Demon that Dostoevsky is always beating on in his novels, like it threatened to take over the world. Interesting too that Dostoevky, although opposed to Nihilism, created some far more interesting nihilists: Raskolnikov, Stavrogin, Stepanovitch, etc.
 
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