Russian Tsar Era Classics — Fathers and Sons, Part 2, by Ivan Turgenev
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
Ivan Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons" (1862) — the great novel of the generation gap — in a fresh in-house English translation, performed by the KacheliTV cast. The complete novel is presented in six parts; this is Part 2 of 6 (Chapters 8–14).
May 1859. Arkady Kirsanov comes home from university to his father's estate, Marino, bringing his friend Yevgeny Bazarov — a young medical student and a nihilist, who believes in nothing but what can be dissected, measured, and proved. In a few weeks Bazarov turns the quiet house upside down: he quarrels with Arkady's elegant uncle Pavel Petrovich over everything the older generation holds dear, charms the servants and peasant children, and then, in the town and at the estate of the widow Anna Sergeyevna Odintsova, meets the one force his philosophy cannot dissect. Turgenev's complete novel, carried as written — all twenty-eight chapters, from the dusty highway to the little village graveyard.
The chapters:
0:26 — Chapter Eight: the bailiff, the peasants, and the estate's slow decline; Pavel alone with his thoughts
15:22 — Chapter Nine: in the garden — Bazarov makes Fenechka's acquaintance and charms little Mitya
21:50 — Chapter Ten: two weeks at Marino — work, idleness, and the great quarrel between Pavel and Bazarov
49:22 — Chapter Eleven: Nikolai in the bower — sad thoughts, the cello, and Fenechka calling him in
57:50 — Chapter Twelve: the provincial town — a "young" governor, Kolyazin, and the invitation to the ball
1:08:28 — Chapter Thirteen: Kukshina's rooms — emancipation, champagne at breakfast, and a name first heard: Odintsova
1:21:15 — Chapter Fourteen: the governor's ball — Anna Sergeyevna's entrance, the mazurka, an invitation to Nikolskoye
Source: Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883), «Отцы и дети» ("Fathers and Sons"), first published in the journal Russky Vestnik, February 1862 — public domain. Russian text via ilibrary.ru. Fresh in-house English translation made for this performance; no existing translation used.
Dramatized performance by the KacheliTV cast: narrated by Violetta, with Scratch as Bazarov, Felix as Arkady, Amos as Nikolai Petrovich, Silas as Pavel Petrovich, Magnolia as Anna Sergeyevna Odintsova, Lulu as Fenechka, Orson as Vasily Ivanich, Madame de Pamplemousse as Arina Vlasyevna, Bruno as Sitnikov, Morgana as Kukshina, and Mira as Katya.
Music: the theme (Golden Monologue) opens and closes this part and returns briefly between the chapters. No music plays under the narration.
Season 147 — Russian Tsar Era Classics, Episode 13.
KacheliTV — world classics, read aloud.
