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Oblomov

(Penguin Classics)

By David Magarshack, Milton Ehre, Ivan Goncharov

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| Paperback | 9780140449877

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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, nContinue

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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  • Eskapizm

    This intimately funny and desperately sad novel opens with a parade of visitors to Ilya Ilich Oblomov’s Petersburg flat. Most of them are introduced, in this new translation, by the phrase ‘in walked’, which creates a wonderful sense of flatness, rep ... (read full critics)

    lrb published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010

  • The Short Happy Life of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov

    Stephen Parker From the recent American edition of Oblomov; photograph by Stephen Parker Ivan Goncharov worked on Oblomov for about ten years, from the late 1840s until 1858, but a reader is left with the impression that the hero was born to him in a ... (read full critics)

    nybooks published on Sat, 28 Aug 2010

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  • The story of a man who can't be bothered to get out of bed in the morning, until he meets a young woman who starts to change his life. But this is a Russian novel, not a light romance... As someone who finds it easy to succumb to laziness, I identified with the main character, and I found the whol ... (continue)

    The story of a man who can't be bothered to get out of bed in the morning, until he meets a young woman who starts to change his life. But this is a Russian novel, not a light romance... As someone who finds it easy to succumb to laziness, I identified with the main character, and I found the whole book quite moving.

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