eyemaker
01-07-2008, 01:27 AM
Like most Russian novels of its times, Father and Sons was written about the nobility; but it pictured them in a changing world, not long before the serfs were declared free men. Turgenev gently mocked the nihilism of his most significant character, the young doctor, Bazarov, but he treated the ideas respectfully. Turgenev coined the term nihilism.;)