Oblomov

By: Ivan Goncharov

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Paperback | 31 March 2005 | Edition Number 1

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496 Pages

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24.9 x 16.8 x 5.4

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Written with sympathetic humor and compassion, this masterful portrait of upper-class decline made Ivan Goncharov famous throughout Russia on its publication in 1859. Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a member of Russia's dying aristocracy-a man so lazy that he has given up his job in the Civil Service, neglected his books, insulted his friends, and found himself in debt. Too apathetic to do anything about his problems, he lives in a grubby, crumbling apartment, waited on by Zakhar, his equally idle servant. Terrified by the activity necessary to participate in the real world, Oblomov manages to avoid work, postpones change, and-finally-risks losing the love of his life. This superb translation by David Magarshack captures all the subtle comedy and near-tragedy of the original.

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"Oblomov is a truly great work, the likes of which one has not seen for a long, long time. I am in rapture over Oblomov and keep rereading it." Leo Tolstoy

"[Goncharov is] ten heads above me in talent." Anton Chekhov

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