Oblomov
Introduction by Richard Freeborn
Ivan Goncharov
ISBN: | 9780679417293 |
Publisher: | Everyman's Library |
Published: | 31 December, 1992 |
Format: | Hardcover |
Language: | English |
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Oblomov
Introduction by Richard Freeborn
Ivan Goncharov
The sly, subversive side of the nineteenth-century Russian literary character -- the one which represents such a contrast to the titanic exertions of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky -- was most fully realized in Ivan Goncharov's 1859 masterpiece, Oblomov. This magnificent farce about a gentleman who spends the better part of his life in bed is a reminder of the extent to which humor, in the hands of a comic genius, can be used to explore the absurdities and injustices of a social order. Goncharov's gentle satire on the failings of 19th-century Russian gentry and bureaucracy turns into something deeper and richer than satire, as he probes the character of a protagonist whose constitutional lethargy becomes a symbol for the malaise of the human spirit in an alienating world. (Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
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