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Bazarov
The nihilist protagonist of Turgenev's novel 'Fathers and Sons,' who fights a duel in that book; Laevsky and von Koren both invoke him as a type of the 'superfluous man' generation, and recall that he too fought a duel.
Reading notes
- The Duel §149 Bazarov
The nihilist hero of Turgenev's 'Fathers and Sons,' who also fights a duel in that novel; cited by Laevsky and von Koren as one of the fashionable literary types Laevsky uses to explain himself.