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ATSEEL award for best translation into English, 2008
Even though Ivan Goncharov wrote several books that were widely read and discussed during his lifetime, today he is remembered for one novel, Oblomov, published in 1859. An indisputable classic of Russian literature, the artistic stature and cultural significance of which may be compared only to other such masterpieces as Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls, Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, and Fyodor Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov. Stephen Pearl's new translation -- the first major English-language publication of Oblomov in more than fifty years -- succeeds exquisitely to introduce this astonishing and endearing novel to a new generation of readers.
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About the Author
Richard Freeborn is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of London. He has translated and edited many novels by Turgenev, and is the author of Turgenev, the Novelist's Novelist, The Rise of the Russian Novel, and The Russian Revolutionary Novel.
Stephen Pearl (translator) was a simultaneous interpreter at the United Nations for more than thirty years and was Chief of English Interpretation there for fifteen years. He is a graduate of St. John's College, Oxford University with an M.A. in Classics.
Tolstaya was born in St. Petersburg. She has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and, in 2001, two major Russian literary awards. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, the New Republic, and other publications. After teaching at Princeton University and for many years at Skidmore College, she now lives in Moscow.
Galya Diment (Introduction) is Professor and Chair of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Washington, Seattle. She edited Goncharov's Oblomov: A Critical Companion (Northwestern) and is the author of The Autobiographical Novel of Co-Consciousness: Goncharov, Woolf, and Joyce (University Press of Florida). Her other books include Pniniad: Vladimir Nabokov and Marc Szeftel (University of Washington), Between Heaven and Hell: The Myth of Siberia in Russian Culture (St. Martin's), and the forthcoming Approaches to Teaching Lolita (MLA).
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. Translated from the Russian by Stephen Pearl, foreword by Tatyana Tolstaya. 443 pages. Light edge wear, several pages dog-eared, partial line underlined in red ink on page 10. Seller Inventory # 001906
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Softcover. Condition: Fine. Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen; Leichte Verschmutzung / Farbtonveränderung. First published 150 years ago, Ivan Goncharov's Oblomov is and undisputed classic of Russian literature, the artistic stature and cultural significance of which have been compared to such master pieces as Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Fyodor Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov. Until now, no English-language edition has done justice to this astonishing, sidesplitting, and deeply poignant novel. Years in preparation, Stephan Pearl's landmark translation, with its innovative lexicon, pitch-perfect ear for dialect and colloquial speech, and superb prose styling, allows today's reader to appreciate Oblomov at new heights of emotional, ironic, and comic satisfaction. Set in Petersburg, Russia, this is the story of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, an amiable, thirty-something underachiever, who lives in an apartment with his life-long with his life-long servant, Zakhar. Oblomov rarely changes out of his dressing gown, spending his days drifting in and out of sleep, dreaming of his idyllic childhood on his ancestral estate, Oblomovka. His boyhood friend, Stoltz, motivated accomplished, and always alert, often visits Oblomov. When Stoltz introduces him to the beautiful and cultured Olga, Oblomov moves to the country to be near her. Olga is soon smitten with the lovable Oblomov but is determined to change him into a man in action. Seller Inventory # 98429b05-bcc6-4fb7-88e4-8cbca549c696
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