Oblomov (Penguin Classics)

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The first part of the book finds Oblomov in bed one morning. He receives a letter from the manager of his country estate, Oblomovka, explaining that the financial situation is deteriorating and that he must visit to make some major decisions. But Oblomov can barely leave his bedroom, much less journey a thousand miles into the country. HARJAN, GEORGE (1 January 1976). "Dobroliubov's "What is Oblomovism?": An Interpretation". Canadian Slavonic Papers. 18 (3): 284–292. doi: 10.1080/00085006.1976.11091456. JSTOR 40866920. Olga is introduced to Oblomov by Stoltz and is included in Stoltz's attempts to reform Oblomov. Olga spends much of her time throughout the novel determined to change Oblomov's ways. She and Oblomov fall in love, and her efforts seem to be successful for a time, as Oblomov reads more novels and attends more social events. The two become engaged, but Oblomov's deep-set fear of moving forward prevent him from taking necessary steps toward actual marriage, and Olga breaks off the engagement. Olga then travels to Paris with her aunt, where she runs into Stoltz. The two fall in love and marry, moving to the Crimea. At the University, with its atmosphere of intellectual freedom and lively debate, Goncharov's spirit thrived. One episode proved to be especially memorable: when his then idol Alexander Pushkin arrived as a guest lecturer to have a public debate with professor Mikhail T. Katchenovsky on the authenticity of The Tale of Igor's Campaign. "It was as if sunlight lit up the auditorium. I was enchanted by his poetry at the time...it was his genius that formed my aesthetic ideas – although the same, I think, could be said of all the young people of the time who were interested in poetry," Goncharov wrote. [8] Unlike Alexander Herzen, Vissarion Belinsky, or Nikolay Ogaryov, his fellow Moscow University students, Goncharov remained indifferent to the ideas of political and social change that were gaining popularity at the time. Reading and translating were his main occupations. In 1832, the Telescope magazine published two chapters of Eugene Sue's novel Atar-Gull (1831), translated by Goncharov. This was his debut publication. [7] Meanwhile, in the play, Oblomov's friends hoped to entice him out of his melancholy through the power of love.

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Goncharov first thought of writing Oblomov in the mid-1840s, soon after publishing his first novel A Common Story. [2] In 1849 he wrote "Episode from an Unfinished Novel: Oblomov's Dream", a short story that was published in the literary journal Sovremennik. [2] At that point Goncharov had just started writing his novel, and Oblomov was published ten years later, with "Oblomov's Dream" as Chapter 9 in Part 1. a b c d Seeley, Frank Friedeberg (1 January 1976). "Oblomov". The Slavonic and East European Review. 54 (3): 335–354. JSTOR 4207297. Seeley, Frank Friedeberg. 1952. The Heyday of Superfluous Man in Russia. Slavonic and East European Review 31 (76, Dec.): 92–112. Agafia Pshenitsina is Oblomov's widowed landlady, who falls in love with him and holds him in high regard as a nobleman. She is also Ivan Matveyevich's sister. At the end of the story, it is revealed to Stoltz that Oblomov and Agafia are married with a son. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, among others, considered Goncharov a noteworthy author of high stature. Anton Chekhov is quoted as stating that Goncharov was "...ten heads above me in talent." [10] Turgenev, who fell out with Goncharov after the latter accused him of plagiarism (specifically of having used some of the characters and situations from The Precipice, whose plan Goncharov had disclosed to him in 1855, in Home of the Gentry and On the Eve), nevertheless declared: "As long as there is even one Russian alive, Oblomov will be remembered!" [11] The Precipice [ edit ] Portrait of Goncharov by Ivan Kramskoi, 1865

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Gontšarov toimi amiraali Jefimi Putjatinin sihteerinä tämän "maailmanympäryspurjehduksella" höyryfregatti Palladalla vuosina 1852–1855. Goncharov, Ivan Aleksandrovich (27 September 2018). "A common story, a novel". London, London Book Co. – via Internet Archive.

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Some years after settling into Agafia’s house, he has a debilitating stroke, and another year later, a fatal one. His doctor blames his inactivity and heavy lunches, and so does Goncharov: “His perpetual rest, perpetual silence, and lazy crawl from one day to the next quietly stopped the machine of his life.” At one point someone called, "Hark, here he comes", while a group of the cast looked off to the left. Spike entered stage right. They did not seem to appreciate this, an impression that was confirmed later on a BBC talk show. London's thespians did not approve. Quoted in N. F. Budanova's "The confessions of Goncharov. The Unfinished Story. Literaturnoe Nasledstvo, 102 (2000), p. 202. Goncharov, Ivan Aleksandrovich (27 September 2018). "The precipice". London, Hodder and Stoughton – via Internet Archive.

Goncharov was born into a wealthy merchant family and, after graduating from Moscow University in 1834, served for nearly 30 years as an official, first in the Ministry of Finance and afterward in the Ministry of Censorship. The only unusual event in his uneventful life was his voyage to Japan made in 1852–55 as secretary to a Russian admiral; this was described in Fregat Pallada (1858; “The Frigate Pallas”). Platonov, Rachel S. “Remapping Arcadia: ‘Pastoral Space’ in Nineteenth-Century Russian Prose.” Modern Language Review 102, no. 4 (October, 2007): 1105-1121.