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Oblomov

Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov

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Oblomov is the best known novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov. 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 literature. Oblomov is a young, generous nobleman who seems incapable of making important decisions or undertaking any significant actions. Spoiled as a child to the point of not even being able to put on his own socks, Oblomov is unprepared to deal with the smallest difficulty of adult life. In his fevered dreams he sees the words "Oblomovstchina" ("Oblomovism" or in this translation "the disease of Oblomovka") in flaming letters on the ceiling putting a name to the disability of which he is all too aware.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Suddenly the doorbell rang with such vehemence that both men started, and Zakhar came hurrying out of his pantry.







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The next moment there entered the room a tall, loosely built man who evidently did not believe in refinement of costume, nor was in any way ashamed of the fact. This was Mikhei Andreievitch Tarantiev, a native of the same district as Oblomov. Though an individual of rough, sullen mien, and of rather an overbearing manner, he did not lack a certain keen ruggedness of wit; nor could any one be a better judge of mundane questions in general, nor a better resolver of tangled juridical problems (though usually he behaved rudely to the person who had sought his advice on these matters). Nevertheless, his abilities stopped short at a talent for verbal expos. . . Read More

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Mi-e atît de lene să scriu o recenzie, e atît de bine în pat, n-are nici un rost să mă scol, să merg la birou, să deschid laptopul etc. etc., încît nu pot decît să vă îndemn să citiți romanul lui Goncearov...

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După 3 ore. Cu un suprem efort de care sînt foarte mîndru, transcriu dintr-o recenzie mai

If Oblomov was Hamlet the famous soliloquy would have been “To get off my arse or not to get off my arse, that is the question” but actually there wouldn’t have been a soliloquy because Oblomov wouldn’t have bothered with anything hard like that. There would just be the sound of light snoring. Never

There is a crustacean called a hermit crab that lives its entire life hiding from the world in a seashell… This is the way Ilya Ilyich Oblomov exists among other human beings…
He was a man of about thirty-two or three, of medium height and pleasant appearance, with dark grey eyes, but with a total ab

آبلوموف نوشته شده توسط ایوان گنچاروف رمانی ایست در باره کسی که هیچ کاری انجام نمی دهد ، هیچ هیچ ، حتی به زحمت از خانه بیرون می رود ، با پولی که از املاک خود می گیرد زندگی را نه به سختی و نه به راحتی ، بلکه به هیچ می گذراند . چه گونه نویسنده از چنین سوژه ای موفق به ساختن یک رمان عظیم شده است؟
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It was the moment of solemn stillness in nature, when the creative mind works more actively, poetic thoughts glow more fervently, the heart burns with passion more ardently or suffers more bitter anguish, when the seed of a criminal design ripens unhindered in a cruel soul, when….everhtying in Ob

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