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Goncharov (1812-91) was a Russian novelist who also served in many official capacities, including the position of censor. Oblomov, his second and best-known novel which is a satire of the Russian nobility, was first published in 1859. The eponymous hero is the ultimate incarnation of the superfluous man, a symbolic character in 19th century Russian literature, and no other novel has been referenced to describe the elusive "Russian mentality" o...

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New, award-winning translation of Goncharov's popular masterpiece Rich in situational comedy, psychological complexity and social satire, Oblomov - here presented in Stephen Pearl's award-winning translation, the first major English-language version of the novel in more than fifty years - is a timeless novel and a monument to human idleness.

Told in the author's trademark humorous style and presented in a sparkling new translation by Stephen Pearl, The Same Old Story - Goncharov's first novel, preceding his masterpiece Oblomov by twelve years - is a study of lost illusions and rude spiritual awakening in the modern world.

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Oblomov is the best known novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov and he is also the central character of the novel. Since Oblomov rarely leaves his room or bed, the book was considered a satire of Russian nobility. Oblomov was compared to Shakespeare's Hamlet as answering 'No!' to the question "To be or not to be?

Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (1812-1891) was one of the leading members of the great circle of Russian writers who, in the middle of the nineteenth century, gathered around the Sovremmenik (Contemporary) under Nekrasov's editorship-a circle including Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Byelinsky, and Herzen. He had not the marked genius of the first three of these, but that he is so much less known to the western reader is perhaps also due to the ...

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Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (1812-1891) was one of the leading members of the great circle of Russian writers who, in the middle of the nineteenth century, gathered around the Sovremmenik (Contemporary) under Nekrasov's editorship-a circle including Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Byelinsky, and Herzen. He had not the marked genius of the first three of these, but that he is so much less known to the western reader is perhaps also due to the ...

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Excerpt from Oblomov Mmov's face was neither reddy nor dull nor pale, but of an indefinite hue. At all events, that was the impression which it gave - possibly because, through insufficiency of exercise, or through want of fresh air, or through a lack of both, he was wrinkled beyond his years. In general, to judge from the extreme whiteness of his bare neck, his small, puffy hands, and his soft shoulders, one would conclude that he possessed ...

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