β Scribed by Ivan Goncharov; David Magarshack
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"[Goncharov is] ten heads above me in talent.ββAnton Chekhov
(Anton Chekhov )
β 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.ββLeo Tolstoy
(Leo Tolstoy )
"Offers a fine example of sly and compassionate satire, a very rare genre indeed"βMichael Wood, London Review of Books
(London Review of Books )
"You can''t help but be captivated by the ''rapture'' that Tolstoy spoke of when reading and rereading it."βRon Rosenblum, Slate, A Slate Best Book of 2008
(Slate )
βThe combination of Goncharov''s edits and Schwartzβs translation left me thumbing back to the copyright page to confirm 1862, not 1962, as this translation sparkles with contemporary lyricism and humor."βKaren Vanuska, Quarterly Conversation
(Quarterly Conversation )
βLong before Jerry Seinfeld and Samuel Beckett, there was Ivan Goncharov, a minor government official in czarist Russia, and his classic novel about an ordinary Russian aristocrat mired in his own extraordinary inertia.ββChris Lehman, Bookforum
(Bookforum )
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Russian
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Set at the beginning of the nineteenth century, before the ideal of industrious modern man, when idleness was still looked upon by Russia's serf-owning rural gentry as a plausible and worthy goal, there was Oblomov. Indolent, inattentive, incurious, given to daydreaming and procrastination--indeed,
When Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, a member of Russia's aristocracy, lacks the willpower and self-confidence to participate in the real world, he risks losing the love of his life.
SUMMARY: Introduction by Richard Freeborn; Translation by Natalie Duddington
### Review "[Goncharov is] ten heads above me in talent.Anton Chekhov (Anton Chekhov ) *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 (Leo Tolstoy ) "Offers a fine example of sly and co
SUMMARY: Introduction by Richard Freeborn; Translation by Natalie Duddington
"Follows the travails of an unlikely hero, a young aristocrat incapable of making a decision. Indolent, inattentive, incurious, given to daydreaming and procrastination, Oblomov clearly predates the ideal of the industrious modern man, yet he is impossible not to admire."--Publisher description.