Oblomov
A Novel
Written by Ivan Goncharov
Afterword by Mikhail Shishkin
Translated by Marian Schwartz
Format: Hardcover, 558 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: December 2, 2008
Price: $33.95
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, given to daydreaming and procrastination–indeed, given to any excuse to remain horizontal–Oblomov is...
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