1. Understanding Oblomov: Laziness as Existential Rebellion - Medium
24 jan 2024 · Oblomovism is characterized by a sort of indolence and laziness, often accompanied by a strong sense of melancholy and dissatisfaction. One of ...
Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
2. O is for Oblomov - Bookanista
Oblomov, however, is more slacker than slob. He doesn't aim to cause offence, he doesn't brag. Importantly, he manages to get ever better at enjoying his life.
How Ivan Goncharov’s incorrigible slacker can guide us towards a more uplifting existence. From Exhausted: An A–Z for the Weary by Anna Katharina Schaffner
3. Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov | Goodreads
A slow, sad poem weaving through to an end that is left revealed to the reader from the beginning. To read this book is like watching the waves on a lonely ...
Even though Ivan Goncharov wrote several books that wer…
4. Times of Laziness - European Journal of Psychoanalysis
This essay studies the phenomenon of laziness through the text of the famous Russian novel “Oblomov,” written by Ivan Goncharov in the mid-19th century.
Happy are the idlers that can permit themselves to hold utility, usefulness and profit(2) in contempt. Their laziness supplies them with the possibility of ignoring contemptible utility. Art can be useless. Art sanctions the happy idler’s life. Laziness opens up the possibility for the idle passage of time, for idling away the hours. The other times of laziness: dreamtimes, times lost in thought, times of contemplation, times of daydreams, hallucinations, times of depression. Laziness is best described as a cultural phenomenon-or as a phenomenon of Russian culture at the very least-in Ivan Goncharov’s classic novel “Oblomov”. By the way, in 1907, the famous anarchist Pyotr Kropotkin wrote that you can find Oblomov in any corner of the world. The novel “Oblomov” was published in 1859. Goncharov wrote it slowly, tortuously, over a period of eleven years. Its hero has become a paradigm for enculturated laziness.
5. Books: 'Oblomov': obscure Russian masterpiece of the 19th century
11 mrt 2021 · The Russian masterpiece, Oblomov, is famed in the country of its nativity, yet neglected in the English speaking world.
The novel has gifted the Russian tongue and imagination a neologism: ‘oblomovshchina’, signifying that peculiar lethargy by which one’s life’s energy and meaning are sapped.
6. Oblomov - Bookstooge's Reviews on the Road
12 jun 2013 · Oblomov went from funny to pathetic to inspiring to sad to heartsick to pathetic again and ended on awe-inspiring. A lot of this is because I ...
Oblomov Ivan Goncharov My rating: 5 of 5 stars What can I say about this book that other reviewers haven’t? Don’t know, so I guess I’ll just write what stood out to me. Oblomov we…
7. Michael Wood · Eskapizm: Oblomov - London Review of Books
6 aug 2009 · His soul is stagnant; and if clinical depression is compatible with living like a gourmet prince, he is depressed. This is where we need to ...
This intimately funny and desperately sad novel opens with a parade of visitors to Ilya Ilich Oblomov’s Petersburg flat. Most of them are introduced, in this new translation, by the phrase ‘in walked’, which creates a wonderful sense of flatness, repetition and invasion. All but one of the visitors are busy in some way or other, full of talk of the world, parties, work, the latest literary news. They are going somewhere, they have a life, and one of them is eager to steal or cadge as much from Oblomov as he can. The very descriptions of these people make us tired, setting us up for a largely (although not entirely) disreputable identification with the book’s slothful hero. Other translations describe his favourite posture as lying down, but Marian Schwartz boldly goes for ‘recumbence’, with its suggestion of ornate Latin repose:
8. by Ivan Goncharov - Oblomov - LibraryThing
Oblomov himself becomes one of those transfigured characters which have grown over a long period of writing, which exist on several planes, and which go on ...
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9. The Short Happy Life of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov | Elaine Blair
19 aug 2010 · Oblomov intrigues us in part because the idea of a novel about doing nothing seems a curiosity for its era. How will Goncharov bend novelistic ...
Ivan Goncharov worked on Oblomov for about ten years, from the late 1840s until 1858, but a reader is left with the impression that the hero was born to
10. Oblomov, by Ivan Goncharov | The Joy of Mere Words
27 jul 2016 · It is surprising how much affection the reader generates towards Oblomov when strictly speaking he is a parasite, both on those around him and ...
Ivan Goncharov’s 1859 novel has as its central character Ilya Ilyitch Oblomov, a member of the landed gentry living in St Petersburg on the receipts from his provincial estate. Oblomov is fantasti…
11. Oblomov - Five Books Expert Reviews
by Ivan Goncharov ... I would say this book is the key to a big compartment in the Russian heart or character. Oblomov's laziness and his impotence when it comes ...
I would say this book is the key to a big compartment in the Russian heart or character.
12. Oblomov - Hermance's Bookshelf
20 aug 2020 · Oblomov is overwhelmed by feelings of sadness and hopelessness. He does not see a future for himself and he does not care to have one though he ...
Hermance's Bookshelf's review of Ivan Goncharov's eponym novel Oblomov first published in 1859.
13. Summary of 'Oblomov' by Ivan Goncharov: A Detailed Synopsis
Oblomov embodies this term, showing how personal inertia can lead to broader societal implications. The narrative digs deeper into the psychology behind ...
Table of Contents Introduction Synopsis of Oblomov Alternative Book Cover Characters Highlights Spoilers FAQs about Oblomov Reviews About the Author Conclusion
14. Ivan Goncharov's 'Oblomov': A short summary - Russia Beyond
27 apr 2024 · We see absolutely no contempt from the author to his character Oblomov. On the contrary, despite Oblomov being shown as weak and lazy, he is ...
It is considered one of the most famous Russian novels and is a delicate view on the nature of a typical Russian man. The main character’s name,...
15. Oblomov. - languagehat.com
9 mei 2017 · Like most novels, Oblomov would benefit from a skilled editor's scissors but cutting out part four – the story of the protagonist's slide into a ...
I’ve just finished reading Goncharov’s Oblomov in Russian, something I’ve been looking forward to since I read it in English (in Magarshack’s translation) decades ago. It’s a different book than I had remembered — less jolly, more divided. Oblomov the character is one of the great creations of world literature; the novel to which he gives life is something of a mess. I’ll start by quoting Richard Freeborn’s description in The Cambridge History of Russian Literature (warning: spoilers from here on out):
16. Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov - Background Showing 1-5 of 5
6 feb 2021 · It is a hope and a trust in help from God and supernatural forces.) Stolz suggests that Oblomov's death was the result of "Oblomovism".
5 discussion posts. Gem said: Availability: There are several translations available for free on the Internet Archive. Please be aware that any edition...
17. Oblomov - 1000 books to read before you die!
Although the book's satire of Russian nobility is trenchant and funny, the author knows that his protagonist suffers from something more insidious than mere ...
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18. Oblomov Summary PDF | Ivan Goncharov - Bookey
24 jun 2024 · "Oblomovism" signifies more than just the personal failings of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov; it embodies a societal malaise characterized by complacency, ...
Book Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov: Chapter Characters Plot Summary,Free PDF Download,Review. A Portrait of Inertia and Lost Ambition
19. Excerpt: 'Oblomov' by Ivan Goncharov - Berfrois
18 feb 2016 · “Then, if you like, Mischa Gorunov shall lend you a horse.” “Of what is the fellow thinking?” said Oblomov as though to himself. “How come you ...
Peter Harrison Asleep, John Singer Sargent, 1905 From Chapter 2: There entered a young fellow of about twenty-five. Beaming with health and irreproachably dressed to a degree which dazzled the eye with its immaculateness of linen and gorgeousness of jewellery, he was a figure calculated to excite envy. “Good morning, Volkov!”cried Oblomov. “And good morning to you,”…
