OblomovGoncharov'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. |
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User Review - Lyndatrue - LibraryThingI first read this in 2008, after it was strongly recommended to me by multiple friends (who were all of a group that have Russian as a second language, for various divergent reasons). Each of them ... Read full review
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User Review - janerawoof - LibraryThingA reread from years ago when I was going through a phase of reading Russian literature--just as enthralling as before. A social satire on the "landed gentry" class in 19th century Russia, as ... Read full review
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Oblomov Everyman's Library Classics Series Volume 124 of Everyman's library The Millennium library |
| Author | Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov |
| Translated by | Natalie Duddington |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | David Campbell, 1992 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | Jun 15, 2010 |
| ISBN | 1857151240, 9781857151244 |
| Length | 586 pages |
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