…translations), like The Defense, for example. If you want to go whole hog into postmodernism then try Pynchon or Gaddis. The 19th century Russians from Gogol to Chekhov are pretty much can't-lose. Turgenev's Fathers and Sons is beautiful and captures the spirit of youth. Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier is a short masterpiece. The Great Gatsby is as good as its reputation says. Read Dickens if you want the essence of the…
I like to recommend Ivan Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons" as it gives a contemporary critical view of the nihilistic and utopian ideologies that shaped Russian intellectual discourse of the 1860s.
今天读到这个真有意思。昨晚我看电视看烦了，被网上各种干扰烦透了，就闭着眼睛坐在那儿，任思绪游荡。最后我想起来我想读《Fathers and Sons》（Turgenev）。有个好问题：我为什么在这儿而不去读那本书？马上回来。
Funny to read this today. Last night I got sick of TV, sick of all the interwebs' distractions, and just sat there with eyes closed, letting my mind wander. Finally I remembered I wanted to read Fathers and Sons (Turgenev). Here's a great question: why am I here and not reading that? BRB.
……译本），比如《保卫》。如果你想彻底扎进后现代主义，那就试试品钦（Pynchon）或加迪斯（Gaddis）。从果戈理到契诃夫的19世纪俄国作家几乎稳赚不赔。屠格涅夫的《父与子》文笔极美，抓住了青春的神韵。福特·马多克斯·福特的《好兵》是一部短篇杰作。《了不起的盖茨比》名不虚传。想领略其精髓就读狄更斯……
…translations), like The Defense, for example. If you want to go whole hog into postmodernism then try Pynchon or Gaddis. The 19th century Russians from Gogol to Chekhov are pretty much can't-lose. Turgenev's Fathers and Sons is beautiful and captures the spirit of youth. Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier is a short masterpiece. The Great Gatsby is as good as its reputation says. Read Dickens if you want the essence of the…
我很喜欢推荐伊凡·屠格涅夫的《父与子》，因为它对塑造了19世纪60年代俄国知识界论调的虚无主义和乌托邦意识形态，提供了一种同代人的批判性视角。
I like to recommend Ivan Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons" as it gives a contemporary critical view of the nihilistic and utopian ideologies that shaped Russian intellectual discourse of the 1860s.
今天读到这个真有意思。昨晚我看电视看烦了，被网上各种干扰烦透了，就闭着眼睛坐在那儿，任思绪游荡。最后我想起来我想读《Fathers and Sons》（Turgenev）。有个好问题：我为什么在这儿而不去读那本书？马上回来。
Funny to read this today. Last night I got sick of TV, sick of all the interwebs' distractions, and just sat there with eyes closed, letting my mind wander. Finally I remembered I wanted to read Fathers and Sons (Turgenev). Here's a great question: why am I here and not reading that? BRB.
1866 年正是 Ivan Turgenev 的《Fathers and Sons》出版后不久，这本书让“虚无主义”一词流行起来。
1866 was shortly after the publication of Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, which popularized the word nihilism.