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Oblomov (Everyman's Library)
Ivan Goncharov
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Oblomov (Everyman's Library)
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)
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | December 15, 1992 |
ISBN13 | 9780679417293 |
Publishers | Everyman's Library |
Pages | 624 |
Dimensions | 136 × 211 × 36 mm · 639 g |
Language | English |
Contributor | Natalie Duddington |
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