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“Fathers and Sons is not only the best of Turgenevs novels, it is one of the most brilliant novels of the nineteenth century. Turgenev managed to do what he intended to do, to create a male character, a young Russian, who would affirm histhat charactersabsence of introspection and at the same time would not be a journalists dummy of the socialistic type.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
“Deafness produces bizarre effects, reversing the natural order of things; the interchange of letters is the conversation of the deaf, and the only link with society. I would be in despair, for instance, over seeing you speak, but, instead, I am only too happy to hear you write.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)