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The History of Ideas Podcast
with David Runciman

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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Fathers and Sons

Our fourth Great Political Fiction is Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons (1862), the definitive novel about the politics – and emotions – of intergenerational conflict. How did Turgenev manage to write a wistful novel about nihilism? What made Russian politics in the early 1860s so chock-full of frustration? Why did Turgenev’s book infuriate his contemporaries – including Dostoyevsky?


Tomorrow: George Eliot’s Middlemarch Parts 1 & 2


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21 August 2024

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