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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... Read Full Overview

The best-known work by the 19th century Russian novelist about a man who lacks willpower and self-confidence.

One morning, in a flat in one of the great buildings in Gorokliovaia Street, the population of which was sufficient to constitute that of a provincial town, there was lying in bed a gentleman named Ilya Ilyitch Oblomov. He was a fellow of a little over thirty, of medium height,... Read Full Overview

Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a member of Russia's dying aristocracy - a man so lazy that he has given up his job in the Civil Service, neglected his books, insulted his friends and found himself in debt. Too apathetic to do anything about his problems, he lives in a grubby, crumbling... Read Full Overview

AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY HARDCOVER CLASSIC.

Oblomov is a novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, first published in 1859. Oblomov is the central character of the novel, portrayed as the ultimate incarnation of the superfluous man, a symbolic character in 19th-century Russian literature. Oblomov is a young, generous nobleman... Read Full Overview

The novel evolved and expanded from an 1849 short story or sketch entitled "Oblomov's Dream". The novel focuses on the midlife crisis of the main character, Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, an upper middle class son of a member of Russia's nineteenth century landed gentry. Oblomov's distinguishing... Read Full Overview

ГОНЧАРОВ Иван Александрович (1812 - 1891 гг.), прозаик, критик.

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