Oblomov - Softcover

Goncharov, Ivan

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ISBN 10: 1557427739 ISBN 13: 9781557427731

Publisher: World Library Classics, 2009

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"Oblomov" evolved from an 1849 short story entitled "Oblomov's Dream: An Episode from an Unfinished Novel" ("Son Oblomova"). The main character, Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, was compared to Shakespeare's Hamlet. Oblomov answers "No!" to the question "To be or not to be?" Fyodor Dostoyevsky, among others, considered Goncharov a noteworthy author of high stature. Turgenev, who fell out with Goncharov after the latter accused him of plagiarism, nevertheless declared: "As long as there is even just one Russian alive, Oblomov will be remembered!"

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The sly, subversive side of the nineteenth-century Russian literary character -- the one which represents such a contrast to the titanic exertions of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky -- was most fully realized in Ivan Goncharov's 1859 masterpiece, OBLOMOV. This magnificent farce about a gentleman who spends the better part of his life in bed is a reminder of the extent to which humor, in the hands of a comic genius, can be used to explore the absurdities and injustices of a social order.

About the Author:

Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (1812-1891) was a Russian novelist best known as the author of "Oblomov" (1859). He was born in Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk); his father was a wealthy grain merchant. After graduating from Moscow University in 1834 Goncharov served for thirty years as a minor government official.

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