Fathers and Sons Author:Ivan Turgenev The publication of Fathers and Sons enraged old and young, reactionaries, romantics and radicals. Unlike its predecessors it attacked all social classes through its portrait of a the blatant nihilist, Bazarov, who makes a practice of exposing self-deception in those around him. Widely criticized by Russia's radical press, Turgenev won the accl... more »aim of Flaubert, Maupassant and Henry James for being the first author to us psychological character studies instead of elaborate plot and first to create the m modern revolutionary type the "outsider"« less