Turgenev’s Fathers and Children comes from that lush mid-19th century literary period in Russian literature that also includes the authors Gogol (Dead Souls) and my favorite, Goncharov (Oblomov, in which we spend 500 pages with the world’s laziest man).  There are more famous authors in this period, but they don’t appeal to me the way these three do. There is something soothing about the slow pace of life in these books that really appeals to me.  The protagonists are members of the lesser aristocracy, but […]