Oblomov (Penguin Classics)

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On the day he died, aged 83 at his home in Rye, she got a call from her husband Rupert Webb to tell her the news. N. A. Dobrolyubov, ‘What is Oblomovshchina?’, in Selected Philosophical Essays, trans. J. Fineberg (Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1948), 174–217.

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Wigzell, Faith. 1990. Dream and Fantasy in Goncharov’s Oblomov. In From Pushkin to ‘Palisandriia’: Essays on the Russian Novel in Honor of Richard Freeborn, ed. Arnold McMillin, 96–111. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. The novel can be read as a parable of Russia in terminal pre-revolutionary decay. Or it can be read as high comedy (which is how Spike Milligan travestied it in his long-running 1960s stage version). Or one can read Oblomov as a profound allegory of the human condition. "Oblomov? C'est moi." The words Oblomovism and Oblomovitis (translations of Russian: обломовщина oblomovshchina) refer to the fatalistic slothfulness that Oblomov exhibits.Karlinsky, Simon. 1992. Russia’s Gay Literature and Culture: The Impact of the October Revolution. In History of Homosexuality in Europe and America, ed. Wayne R. Dyres and Stephen Donaldson, 347–364. New York: Garland. Miller, Jane Austen, Or the Secret of Style, 16. See Simon Karlinsky, ‘Russia’s Gay Literature and Culture: The Impact of the October Revolution’, in History of Homosexuality in Europe and America, ed. Wayne R. Dyres and Stephen Donaldson (New York: Garland, 1992), 347–64 for a succinct account of changing social and legal constructions of homosexuality in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Russia. He even admitted to having slept with three of the lead ladies in the play in his autobiography The Family Album. Goncharov was born in Simbirsk into the family of a wealthy merchant; as a reward for his grandfather's military service, they were elevated to Russian nobility status. [4] He was educated at a boarding school, then the Moscow College of Commerce, and finally at Moscow State University. After graduating, he served for a short time in the office of the Governor of Simbirsk, before moving to Saint Petersburg where he worked as government translator and private tutor, while publishing poetry and fiction in private almanacs. Goncharov's first novel, A Common Story, was published in Sovremennik in 1847.

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V. S. Pritchett, ‘The Great Absentee’, in The Living Novel (London: Chatto & Windus, 1946), 233–40 (234).

By presenting this type in his rather ordinary surroundings and endeavors, stripped of the Romantic aura with which Alexander Pushkin’s classical and Mikhail Lermontov’s Romantic verse had imbued him, Goncharov gained renown as a critical realist. While all three of his novels remain popular classics in his homeland, only Oblomov has found a wide readership and critical acclaim abroad. Emphasis on that work has caused modern Western scholars to value Goncharov as highly for his artful psychological portraits of stunted adults adrift in a changing world as for his sociological contribution.