β Scribed by Goncharov, Ivan
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"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.
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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.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 o
### 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