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Book SynopsisSet 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 incapable of making a decision. This title presents the translation the novel.
Trade Review"[Goncharov is] ten heads above me in talent.”—Anton Chekhov -- Anton Chekhov
“
Oblomov is a truly great work, the likes of which one has not seen for a long, long time. I am in rapture over
Oblomov and keep rereading it.”—Leo Tolstoy -- Leo Tolstoy
"Offers a fine example of sly and compassionate satire, a very rare genre indeed"—Michael Wood,
London Review of Books -- London Review of Books
"You can't help but be captivated by the 'rapture' that Tolstoy spoke of when reading and rereading it."—Ron Rosenblum, Slate, A Slate Best Book of 2008 -- Slate
“The combination of Goncharov's edits and Schwartz’s translation left me thumbing back to the copyright page to confirm 1862, not 1962, as this translation sparkles with contemporary lyricism and humor."—Karen Vanuska,
Quarterly Conversation -- Quarterly Conversation
“Long before Jerry Seinfeld and Samuel Beckett, there was Ivan Goncharov, a minor government official in czarist Russia, and his classic novel about an ordinary Russian aristocrat mired in his own extraordinary inertia.”—Chris Lehman, Bookforum
-- Bookforum
