Fathers and Sons
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Fathers and Sons
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Czyta:
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David Horovitch
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Autor:
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Ivan Turgenev
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After graduating from the University of Petersburg, Arkady Kirsanov and his friend and fellow graduate, Bazarov, travel to Kirsanov's family home, eager to embark on their next adventure. Delighted at the prospect of seeing his son, Arkady's father welcomes them both to the Marino estate. Encouraging dramatic conflict between the opposing generations, Ivan Turgenev wreaks havoc in Marino, ensuring Bazarov's nihilistic and progressive political views clash spectacularly with that of the traditional Russian patriarch's.
Set in a time of conflict and social uprising, the people fought for the abolishment of serfdom and despaired at the daily inequality faced by the lower classes. Turgenev offered astute psychological insight into the conflicting parties, from the portrayal of his two young protagonists to that of their older parents and the various women that they try to court.
Ivan Turgenev lived in imperial Russia. Abroad, he was a highly respected and sought-after author and Fathers and Sons was released to great success around Europe. Whilst it undoubtedly ruffled some feathers back home, the public found Ivan's novel to be a fascinating take on the socio-political change that had started to sweep across Russia. Turgenev died in 1883 so he didn't live to see the revolution come to fruition. Regardless, his text would go on to be read by millions, outliving the Tsars themselves.
Narrator Biography
Having studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, David Horovitch has had a television career spanning over 40 years. One of his most notable roles was in 1984 as Detective Inspector Slack in the first BBC Miss Marple adaptation of The Body in the Library. Due to the success of his character, he returned for four Christmas specials.
He has had roles in other shows such as Just William (1994), Foyle's War (2002) and Wire in the Blood (2005) as well as film appearances in The Young Victoria (2009), 102 Dalmatians (2000), The Infiltrator (2016) and Mike Leigh's Mr Turner (2014).
A longtime star of the stage, in 2015 he played the role of George Frideric Handel in All the Angels by Nick Drake at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. As well as narrating numerous audiobooks, David Horovitch also appeared in Audible's multicast drama, The Oedipus Plays.
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Magnificent book, told beautifully by a master reader
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Bazarov is fascinating and insufferable at the same time. You start out thinking maybe he's onto something, and then he just keeps going and you're like, no, this guy is a complete jerk. The tragedy is that he builds this entire philosophical cage around himself and then falls in love twice, gets rejected twice, and can't even let himself be saved by it because that would mean admitting the romanticists were right. He's trapped by his own ideas right until the end.
What makes this novel quietly important is that Turgenev wasn't inventing Bazarov, he was observing something already brewing in Russian society and crystallising it into a character. The nihilist who believes in nothing, who says we must destroy before we can build, Turgenev introduced that type to literature in 1862, and within sixty years it had taken over a country. Reading it now you can see exactly how it happens.
The discussions are incredible. Bazarov versus Pavel Petrovich especially, so captivating you forget you're listening to an audiobook. Almost like watching a live debate where both people believe every word. Of course David Horovitch is also to be credited for that experience.
The death caught me off guard. Not a duel, not a revolution, just a small cut from a dissection that goes wrong. Which is kind of the point, this man who was supposed to matter enormously, and life just didn't care. Almost comical, almost tragic.
Not as psychologically suffocating as Dostoevsky, more of a painter than a pressure cooker, and more like Tolstoy, but that's not a criticism. It's a different thing entirely.
Also, when this came out in 1862 both sides were so enraged that Turgenev had to flee Russia. Having read it, and more about that time, I completely understand why.
A victim of his own philosophy
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Der Sprecher/Performer gefiel mir noch weniger als die insgesamt nicht schlechte Gesamthandlung. Zu grosse Lautstaerkeunterschiede in der Interpretation machten das Hoeren beim Autofahren schwierig. Warum er in manchen Dialogmomenten bis beinahe zum Fluestern gehen musste, war mir dabei nicht ganz einsichtig. Auch charakterisierte er die Figuren zu aufdringlich und eindimensional. Von Anfang an draengt er einem Basarow als Unsympathen auf, allein durch die Art wie er dessen Dialogzeilen liest, mit kurz angebundenem durchweg rauem Ton. Aehnliches leisten andere (Vor)Leser oder Sprecher auf subtilere Art, ohne einem die Interpretation/Charakterisierung durch die Stimmgebung foermlich aufzudraengen.
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