Its main character (*) cuts himself while performing an autopsy and contracts typhus, which short-circuits his growing love for Madame Odintsova.
Isaiah Berlin described the five main critical responses to this novel in a 1970 Romanes Lecture on its author "and the Liberal Predicament". In one scene from this novel, a character takes a volume of Pushkin from another character's hands and replaces it with Ludwig Büchner's "Stoff und Kraft". In another scene in this novel, the main characters visit the messy house of Madame Kukshina with the woman-hating Sitnikov. Its main character (*) cuts himself while performing an autopsy and contracts typhus, which short-circuits his growing love for Madame Odintsova. At its end, Pavel goes to Dresden while Fenichka and Katya marry Nikolai and Arkady Kirsanov. For 10 points, name this 1862 novel about the self-described nihilist Bazarov, the most famous work of Ivan Turgenev.
Isaiah Berlin described the five main critical responses to this novel in a 1970 Romanes Lecture on its author "and the Liberal Predicament".
Fathers and Sons [or Fathers and Children; or Otcy i Deti]