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Title: Oblomov (Classics S.) by Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov ISBN: 0-14-044040-2 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1978 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.38 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: brilliant book
Comment: What a fascinating novel. It's not totally unrelated to today's world, as it seems at a first glance... And there are so many connections between the author's life and the character of the story! It makes it even more interesting.
Rating: 4
Summary: The saint of sloth
Comment: Oblomov, the main character of Ivan Goncharov's novel, is widely regarded as one of the finest literary examples of the backward-looking landed gentry of mid-nineteenth century Russia. His name has even entered the Russian language in the term "oblomovshchina", meaning backwardness, inertia. The unheroic hero Oblomov is also a very fine literary creation of a fully-fledged human being. He is a melancholy idealist, a dreamer whose temperament is such that he never begins to put his dreams into action. His tragedy is that he weighs the possible obstacles to his endeavors for such a long time that, finally, he never even starts to act.
Ivan Goncharov is at his best when he describes the mental processes of Oblomov that lead to his bumbling life. There is no better description of how the mind of a pessimistic person manipulates the perception of reality than in this book.
"The Saint of Sloth" is the title of a review written by the critic V.S. Pritchett for the New York Review of Books. It captures nicely the two main aspects of Oblomov's character. On the one hand, Oblomov is lazy, irresponsible, pessimistic, paralyzed, complacent, slothful; but on the other hand he is idealistic, true to himself, honest, child-like, innocent, saintly. He is ultimately a lovable human being. He does not lack wisdom, he lacks resolve.
As can be expected, Goncharov's book is not an action-packed thriller. On the first 50 or so pages, Oblomov barely manages to get out of his bed. A patient reader who keeps reading, however, is rewarded with a wonderfully realistic love story (including all the ups and downs), and many wise comments by the bachelor Goncharov on life, love, passion, duty and marriage.
Rating: 4
Summary: a warning against laziness
Comment: oblomov is a guy who never quite manages to do anything. he has great difficulties managing to do anything. finally a friend manages to convince Oblomov that he must be active, otherwise he will never escape his laziness. the psychology in the story is great. the plot is always simple, perhaps too slowly progressing. there is much humour in this book. the characters are truly believable.
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Title: A Hero of Our Time (Everyman's Library) by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov, Vladimir Nobokov, Dmitri Nabokov ISBN: 0679413278 Publisher: Everyman's Library Pub. Date: 01 July, 1992 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Dead Souls (Vintage Classics) by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky ISBN: 0679776443 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol (Vintage Classics) by Richard Pevear, Nikolai Gogol, Larissa Volokhonsky ISBN: 0375706151 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Anna Karenina (Modern Library Classics) by Leo Tolstoy, Mona Simpson ISBN: 067978330X Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 10 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, Diana Burgin, Katherine Tiernan O'Connor, Diana Lewis Burgin ISBN: 0679760806 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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