Oblomov

Goncharov’s “Oblomov” is a novel on personality weaknesses.

Literature & Fiction

Ivan Goncharov

Literary

Signet Classics/New American Library

AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY HARDCOVER CLASSIC. Ivan Goncharov’s 1859 masterpiece—a magnificent farce about a gentleman who spends the better part of his life in bed—brilliantly employs humor to explore the absurdities and injustices of an outmoded social order. Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a good-hearted nobleman whose majestic slothfulness renders him incapable of making decisions or taking the simplest of actions. Raised in idyllic comfort on his family’s country estate, he has become so lazy as an adult that he lets his affairs deteriorate and allows unscrupulous people to take advantage of his weakness and good nature. Living in a shabby apartment and tended by his indolent serf, Zahar, he relies on the efforts of his increasingly exasperated friend Stolz to protect him from himself. Falling in love briefly rouses Oblomov to exert himself in courting Olga, a young woman Stoltz introduces him to, but his astonishing lethargy eventually defeats even their romance. Wildly successful upon its publication, Oblomov was taken as a slyly subversive indictment of the uselessness and corruption of the nobility, but the character of Goncharov’s superfluous man is rendered in such vivid detail and epic richness that it transcends satire and achieves iconic status, earning a place among the masterworks of Russian literature. Translated by Natalie Duddington (Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed).

Oblomov (Everyman's Library)

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Everyman"s Library

Oblomov is the best known novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, first published in 1859. Oblomov is also the central character of the novel, often seen as the ultimate incarnation of the superfluous man, a symbolic character in 19th-century Russian literature. Oblomov was compared to Shakespeare's Hamlet as answering 'No!' to the question "To be or not to be?" Oblomov is a young, generous nobleman who seems incapable of making important decisions or undertaking any significant actions. Throughout the novel he rarely leaves his room or bed and famously fails to leave his bed for the first 150 pages of the novel. The book was considered a satire of Russian nobility whose social and economic function was increasingly in question in mid-nineteenth century Russia.

Classics

Linnaean Press

In The Precipice Goncharov combines various genres: novel about the artist, political novel, and romance. This work contrasts the then new ideas of philosophical positivism, utilitarianism and atheism with romantic idealism and traditional values. These various views are examined through the characters of three men laboring to win the love of the heroine, Vera: Boris Raisky, an artist-dilettant; Mark Volokhov, a nihilist in the tradition of Turgenev's Bazarov; and Ivan Tushin, a traditional, yet enlightened landowner.The Precipice is especially notable for its women. The heroine, Vera, is one of Russian literature's most independent and intelligent female characters, and the full-blooded portrait of Raisky's wise and strong grandmother is no less remarkable.

The Precipice

ARDIS

Filled with dreams of pursuing a career as a poet, the young Alexander Aduev moves from the country to St Petersburg, where he takes up lodgings next to his uncle Pyotr, a shrewd and world-weary businessman. As his ideals are challenged by disappointment in the fields of love, friendship and poetical ambition, Alexander must decide whether to return to the homely values he has left behind or adapt to the ruthless rules and morals of city life. 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.

The Same Old Story (Alma Classics)

Alma Classics

Millennium Project edition, library stamps and marks, shelf wear to dust jacket, page edges tanned. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

Oblomov (Everyman's Library Classics)

Everyman

Stephen Pearl's new translation of Goncharov's Obyknovennaya Istoriya, will introduce English speakers to a Russian classic that made its author famous, and which is just as amusing and fascinating as Goncharov's better known Oblomov, which probably owes its greater fame to the fact that the self-indulgence of the eponymous Oblomov became part of the Russian vocabulary. The same psychological insight that makes Oblomov so compelling permeates The Same Old Story with its contrast between Alexander, a young nobleman fresh from the simplicity of country life, and the older uncle, Pyotr. Readers of whatever age and from very milieu will recognize in themselves Alexander's unreal ambitions and expectations and the sadder but wiser responses of Uncle Pyotr. 
As Nicholas Lezard said, in reviewing this new translation in the British Guardian, Goncharov's genius lies in his ability to make us root for both: for the young foolish romantic nephew who believes in the ''greatness of soul and the imperishability of true love,'' and for his uncle, whose 'job,' as he sees it, is to ''drive all this rubbish from Alexander's head.''

The Same Old Story

Translated by Stephen Pearl

Bunim & Bannigan, Ltd.

Complete Works and Letters 20 t.t.8 Book 1 break a novel in 5 hours the manuscript. Ed. / Polnoe sobranie sochineniy i pisem v 20 t.T.8 kn.1 Obryv roman v 5 ch. rukopis. red.

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Oblomov, 1858 (IN RUSSIAN LANGUAGE) / (Обломов)

Гончаров Иван Александрович

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Oblomov

Oblomov (Everyman's Library)

Oblomov

The Precipice

The Same Old Story (Alma Classics)

Oblomov (Everyman's Library Classics)

The Same Old Story

Complete Works and Letters 20 t.t.8 Book 1 break a novel in 5 hours the manuscript. Ed. / Polnoe sobranie sochineniy i pisem v 20 t.T.8 kn.1 Obryv roman v 5 ch. rukopis. red.

Oblomov, 1858 (IN RUSSIAN LANGUAGE) / (Обломов)

Oblomov