Sorry I'm a day late with this. Work has been Hell and I got my new computer this week so I've been transferring files, etc. You get the idea.

However, I'm very interested to hear what you think of Bazarov. Interesting fact: he was the first person in print to utter the phrase "God is dead". Nietzsche probably stole the idea from Turgenev. Well, maybe he didn't. However, Turgenev was a brilliant writer who spent the latter years of his life in France and died there. The French feel seeps into his novels, if you ask me. Despite that, he manages to remain Russian.

I don't want to say too much about the main characters, their motives or the general story beyond that. Let's just discuss the novel on the principle of ars gratia artis.