Oblomov
A Novel
$51.16
- Hardcover
552 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2011
Summary
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, given to any excuse to remain horizontal-Oblomov is hardly the stuff of heroes. Yet, he is impossible not to admire. He is forgiven for his weakness and beloved for his shining soul. Ivan Goncharov’…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781583228401 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1583228403 |
| Author: | Ivan Goncharov |
| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 552 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2011 |
| Weight: | 761g |
| Dimensions: | 228mm x 152mm |
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“Oblomov is a truly great work, the likes of which one has not seen for a long time. I am in rapture over Oblomov and keep reading it.” –Leo Tolstoy“[Goncharov is] ten heads above me in talent.” –Anton Chekhov
About The Author
Ivan Goncharov
The Russian novelist IVAN GONCHAROV (1812-1891) was born in Simbirsk, Russia. He served for thirty years as a minor government official and traveled widely. His short stories, critiques, essays, and memoirs were published posthumously in 1919. Oblomov was his most popular and critically acclaimed novel during his lifetime.MARIAN SCHWARTZ has translated Russian literature for over thirty years. She has published over two dozen book-length translations, along with twenty issues of Russian Studies in Literature. She is the principal English translator of the works of Nina Berberova and is a past president of the American Literary Translators Association.
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