Ivan Goncharov

• Jun-1963
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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,...

• May-1977
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Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (1812-1891) was one of the leading members of the great circle of Russian writers who, in the middle of the nineteenth century, gathered around the Sovremmenik (Contemporary) under Nekrasov's editorship-a circle including...

• Apr-2015
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Before Ivan Goncharov wrote OBLOMOV, one of the most acclaimed and enduring classics of Russian literature, there was AN ORDINARY STORY, his debut, which was immediately hailed by critics upon its publication in 1847. AN ORDINARY STORY describes t...

• Aug-2015
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Oblomov is the best known novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, first published in 1859. Oblomov is also the central character of the novel, often seen as the ultimate incarnation of the superfluous man, a symbolic character in 19th-century Russian...