Ivan Goncharov
Birth date: June 18, 1812
Died: September 27, 1891
Ivan Goncharov's Books
There are some very good reviews here explaining the importance of Oblomov and its message: this is Russia on the eve of modernity, and Goncharov presents the evil of the old ways: inertia, reluctance to change, or learn from travel, or – perhaps the most difficult – spend in order to prosper. In th...
bookshelves: translation, slavic, one-penny-wonder, paper-read, winter-20122013, tbr-busting-2013, amusing, midlife-crisis, classic, winter-20142015, published-1859, tbr-busting-2014 Read from February 08, 2013 to December 08, 2014 Introduction.Opening: Ilya Ilyich Oblomov was lying in bed one ...
Introduction.Opening: Ilya Ilyich Oblomov was lying in bed one morning in his flat in Gorokhovaya Street in one of those large houses which have as many inhabitants as a country town.I'd like someone far cleverer than yours truly, to compare and contrast Léonie from Swann's Way with Oblomov. You kn...
I love Russian literature and i liked this initially, but I can't stand that for most of the the fact he doesn't get out of bed. Considering sloth etc is what this whole book is about, didn't bode well....
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