Talk:Fathers and Sons (novel)

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I don't see a reason for the information box to have an entry for Translator - as if there is only one. I happen to have a copy of the novel as translated by Richard Hare, not Rosemary Edmonds. I am deleting the line. If there is something important to say about various translations, add a section to the article. Fikus 19:19, 25 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A charcter list from Ivan Turgenev Fathers and Sons: Character list could be merged here and that article deleted. IrfanAli 18:43, 13 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I changed Katya's last name to Lotkeva, because since she was not wife to her sister's husband as well, she therefore cannot be called Odintsova. I ask for someone to correct, if necessary, the spelling of Lotkeva, because my version is is portuguese. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.79.233.85 (talk) 15:58, August 25, 2007 (UTC)

In the "Context" section of this article is found the following claim:

This prominent theme of character duality and deep psychological insight would exert an influence on most of the great Russian novels to come, most obviously echoed in the novels of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.

Is this really accurate? Although I can't speak much for Tolstoy (being less familiar with him and his works), I think it's fair to say that Dostoevsky's mature style had been fully developed by the time Turgenev's novel was published: Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment -- which is perhaps the epitome of the Dostoevskian -- was published only four years later. I don't think this timeline really allows for much influence of the former on the latter. (More so, perhaps, if we also consider that Dostoevsky hated Turgenev, although this doesn't necessarily, on its own, mean that he couldn't be influenced by his style.) It might be more accurate to say that the two authors merely explored similar themes, or took similar approaches in their writing. --Todeswalzer|Talk 12:45, 20 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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How can an article on a novel be as high as "B-Class" when it doesn't even have a plot summary? john k (talk) 00:13, 3 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

For some reason the translated version of this novel by Karel van het Reve holds many asterisks (***). For example: it says "the city ***" or "*** street". Does anyone know why? 81.68.255.36 (talk) 11:27, 1 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Please note that this article's infobox is retrieving an ISBN from Wikidata currently. This is the result of a change made to {{Infobox book}} as a result of this RfC. It would be appreciated if an editor took some time to review this ISBN to ensure it is appropriate for the infobox. If it is not, you could consider either correcting the ISBN on Wikidata (preferred) or introducing a blank ISBN parameter in the infobox to block the retrieval from Wikidata. If you do review the ISBN, please respond here so other editors don't duplicate your work. This is an automated message to address concerns that this change did not show up on watchlists. ~ Rob^Talk 01:22, 15 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I think there should probably be a short explanation on why there are two different English titles for this book. (Children is a direct translation; I have seen it claimed that sons comes from the first German translation, but I don't have a citable source for that assertion.) Kdammers (talk) 14:25, 1 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]