
Also while Bazarov is implied to be a revolutionary, he only denies things, rejecting any positive values.


This general attitude enters in contradiction with his job as a doctor and a researcher. He proclaims that no things are significant at all. The main distinguishing feature of Bazarov is that he denies everything. Its main hero, Evgeny Bazarov, is a Straw Nihilist and probably the first example of this trope.

It is the last in the row of his several important works and is considered to be his most significant full-length novel. "Every single man hangs by a thread, a bottomless pit can open beneath him any minute, and yet he still goes on thinking up unpleasantness for himself and making a mess of his life."įathers and Sons is a 1862 book by Ivan Turgenev.
