Oblomov: New Translation
First published in 1859, Oblomov is an indisputable classic of Russian literature, comparable in its stature to such masterpieces as Gogol's Dead Souls, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov. The book centres on the figure of...
Same Old Story: New Translation
Filled with dreams of pursuing a career as a poet, the young Alexander Aduev moves from the country to St Petersburg, where he takes up lodgings next to his uncle Pyotr, a shrewd and world-weary businessman. As his ideals are challenged by disappo...
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Malinovka Heights
After his university studies and a short stint in the army and the civil service, thirty-something Boris Pavlovich Raisky enjoys the life of an artist, frequenting St Petersburg's elegant circles, dabbing at his paintings, playing a little music a...
Oblomov
Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a member of Russia's dying aristocracy - a man so lazy that he has given up his job in the Civil Service, neglected his books, insulted his friends and found himself in debt. Too apathetic to do anything about his problems, ...
Oblomov
Set at the beginning of the nineteenth century, when idleness was still looked upon by Russia's serf-owning rural gentry as a plausible and worthy goal, Ivan Goncharov's Oblomov follows the travails of an unlikely hero, a young aristocrat incapabl...
Oblomov
Ivan Goncharov was a Russian novelist who achieved literary fame later in life, after a career in the civil-service which spanned more than thirty years. His first novel, 'A Common Story', was a definitive success and his notoriety was cemented with the publication of his second novel, 'Oblomov', in 1850. Based on a short story written a year prior, 'Oblomov' is about a cultured, intelligent, upper middle class man experiencing a mid-life crisis. Ilya Ilyich Oblomov has sunk into a lethargic stupor, which he calls 'Oblomovism', and spends the majority of his time lying on the sofa or in bed. Goncharov portrays beautifully the process of Oblomov's decline, as well as its consequences, at first through flashbacks and then through the intervention of Andrey Stoltz, a man quite the opposite of Oblomov. The novel was revered for its brutal but honest representation of the slothfulness of the Russian gentry, and has become a timeless classic of Russian and psychological fiction. This
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Oblomov
Roman 'Oblomov' - vershina tvorchestva I. A. Goncharova. Opublikovannyj v 1859 godu, etot roman vyzval neodnoznachnuju reaktsiju kritikov. Goncharov ne tolko pokazal udivitelnyj i paradoksalnyj tip russkogo cheloveka, no i sdelal ego imja naritsatelnym, opredeliv takoj obraz zhizni kak 'oblomovschina'. Odni videli v Oblomove simvol kosnosti Rossii i znamenie vremeni. Po mneniju N. A. Dobroljubova, 'len i apatija Oblomova - edinstvennaja pruzhina dejstvija vo vsej ego istorii'. Drugie kritiki opravdyvali glavnogo geroja romana. Tak, A. V. Druzhinin pisal: 'On dorog nam kak samostojatelnaja i chistaja natura, vpolne nezavisimaja ot toj skholastiko-moralnoj istaskannosti, chto pjatnaet soboju ogromnoe bolshinstvo ljudej...' Odni traktovali roman kak satiricheskoe proizvedenie, drugie otmechali v nem i liricheskoe nachalo, i tonkij psikhologizm. Eta originalnaja i edinstvennaja v svoem rode kniga do sikh por vyzyvaet spory, ne utrativ svoego znachenija.
Oblomov
Roman 'Oblomov' - vershina tvorchestva I. A. Goncharova. Pisatel pokazal udivitelnyj i paradoksalnyj tip russkogo cheloveka, sdelav ego imja naritsatelnym. Roman vyzval neodnoznachnuju reaktsiju kritikov. N. A. Dobroljubov uvidel v Oblomove simvol kosnosti Rossii i znamenie vremeni. A, naprimer, A. V. Druzhinin pisal: 'On dorog nam kak samostojatelnaja i chistaja natura, vpolne nezavisimaja ot toj skholastiko-moralnoj istaskannosti, chto pjatnaet soboju ogromnoe bolshinstvo ljudej...' Odni traktovali roman kak satiricheskoe proizvedenie, drugie otmechali v nem i liricheskoe nachalo, i tonkij psikhologizm. Eta originalnaja i edinstvennaja v svoem rode kniga do sikh por vyzyvaet spory.
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A Serendipitous Error and An Evil Malady
It is a winter evening, and Yegor Aduyev, the scion of a wealthy family from the landed gentry, slips into the house of Baron Neyleyn with the intention of asking his beautiful daughter, the eighteen-year-old Yelena, to be his wife. Will the besotted lover be successful in his pursuit or will the young coquette – who seems at times to reciprocate his feelings, but who lavished lingering looks on two dashing princes during a recent ball – shatter his hopes, his dreams and his entire world? A Serendipitous Error, written in 1839, when Goncharov was still in his twenties, is accompanied here by another early novella, An Evil Malady and a short fictional fragment. Taken together, these stories – translated for the first time into English – are further proof of the eclectic narrative skills of the celebrated author of Oblomov.
An Uncommon Story
Goncharov was the leading Russian writer of the 1850s and, as the author of The Same Old Story, was regarded as “the real heir to Nikolai Gogol”. But the publication of Turgenev’s first full-length novel, A Nest of the Gentry, in 1859, at around the same time as Goncharov’s Oblomov, which had been more than ten years in the making, suddenly changed the public’s perception. Turgenev’s success was eyed with suspicion by his rival, who started to believe that his work in progress, Malinovka Heights, had been plagiarized by his former friend. Goncharov had in fact discussed in detail with Turgenev the plot of his new novel, and the latter later admitted that, being very impressionable, he may have been influenced by some of its elements, but his friend’s charges went further: he accused the younger writer of stealing his ideas, his characters and even some of his plotlines. As Turgenev’s success increased over the years, so did Goncharov’s resentment, and the two novelists, although later
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