Discover Top Posts Tagged with #bazarov

with the context that Demons was heavily inspired by Fathers and Children, i find it so funny to compare the way turgnev talks about bazarov with the way dostoevsky talks about stavrogin

turgnev is like "bazarov is my favorite child," he's my terrible darling boy whom i will defend until my dying breath. if any reader doesnt love him like i do i'm killing everyone in the world and then myself. he sucks and i love him more than life itself. nobody understands him but me and my two writer friends :(

meanwhile dostoevsky is like: i hate stavrogin more than my father. i want to kill him in real life.

#demons dostoevsky #бесы #ivan turgenev #bazarov #my beloved bazarov #the favorite child thing is an actual quote btw i forget the exact letter but it can be found in the katz second edition in the letters

so, I do not even know why I painted flowers in his chest, which, by the way, he denied😭 WHY DOES HE LOOK LIKE JESUS HELP😭😭😭😭😭😭

Evgeny Bazarov from "Fathers and Sons" by

I. S. Turgenev

Translation:

— Are their prayers, their tears fruitless? Is love, holy, devoted love, not omnipotent? Oh no! Grave, no matter how passionate, sinful, and rebellious a heart may be, the flowers growing on it look at us serenely with their innocent eyes: they do not only speak of eternal peace, of that great calm of indifferent nature; they also speak of eternal reconciliation and endless life.…