A man in this novel opines to a woman arranging flowers that unique individuals are hardly worth studying, because all humans possess an “identical spleen.” While taken by the beauty of a coppice of aspens, a man in this novel stifles the urge to recite poetry after thinking about a Ludwig Büchner book. A “modern” valet in this novel is invited to a copse to witness a duel in which an aristocrat suffers a leg wound quickly treated by his adversary, whom he detested for (*) kissing a servant. A man in this novel returns from a marsh carrying a bag of frogs he intends to dissect. That man in this novel gets a kiss from Madame Odintsova while dying of an infection incurred by a botched autopsy. A Russian manor is upended by the nihilist ideals of Bazarov in, for 10 points, what novel by Ivan Turgenev? ■END■
ANSWER: Fathers and Sons [or Otcy i deti; or Fathers and Children]
<Darren Petrosino, European Literature>
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