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| #1622159 in Books | Seven Stories Press | 2008-12-02 | 2008-12-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.29 x1.76 x6.37l,1.65 | File type: PDF | 558 pages | ||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| The Soul of Russia|By Shirley LaPlanche|This story captivates the Russian psych in an unusual way. It introduces all it's characters in short bursts as they arrive in Oblomov's room where we learn how each person is dressed and to what function/event they're going. This short moment in the book tells us about the place, the culture and the habits of the city in which Oblomov li||Long before Jerry Seinfeld and Samuel Beckett, there was Ivan Goncharov, a minor government official in czarist Russia, and his classic novel about an ordinary Russian aristocrat mired in his own extraordinary inertia. --Chris Lehman, Bookforum
Set at the beginning of the nineteenth century, before the ideal of industrious modern man, when idleness was still looked upon by Russia's serf-owning rural gentry as a plausible and worthy goal, there was Oblomov. Indolent, inattentive, incurious, given to daydreaming and procrastination—indeed, given to any excuse to remain horizontal—Oblomov is hardly the stuff of heroes. Yet, he is impossible not to admire. He is forgiven for his weakness and beloved for...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Oblomov: A Novel | Ivan Goncharov. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.
