Oblomov (Penguin Classics)

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When asked about his relationship with Prince Charles, Mrs Whatley said: "Spike told me how Charles used to phone him up now and again and invite him round. Then he joked: 'I wonder what he'd say if I said I was busy?' Ward, Charles Alexander (1989). Moscow and Leningrad: Writers, painters, musicians and their gathering places. K. G. Saur Verlag GmbH. p.89. ISBN 9783598108341 . Retrieved 25 September 2018. In the summer of 1857 Goncharov went to Marienbad for medical treatment. There he wrote Oblomov, almost in its entirety. "It might seem strange, even impossible that in the course of one month the whole of the novel might be written... But it'd been growing in me for several years, so what I had to do then was just sit and write everything down," he later remembered. [6] Goncharov's second novel Oblomov was published in 1859 in Otechestvennye Zapiski. It had evolved from the earlier "Oblomov's Dream", which was later incorporated into the finished novel as Chapter 9. The novel caused much discussion in the Russian press, introduced another new term, oblomovshchina, to the literary lexicon and is regarded as a Russian classic. [7] You walk into a room and you can’t admire enough how symmetrically seated the guests are, how calmly and thoughtfully they’re sitting—over cards. There’s no getting around it, it’s a glorious purpose in life!

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Instead of love, Oblomov finds ease. Agafia Mateveyvna demands nothing of him, she is pleased to make him comfortable in her house and thinks it right that a gentleman (as opposed to a person of the urban middle class like herself) should lie around all day. Goncharov makes a point of the fact that she is enlarged and fulfilled by their companionship, while Oblomov is merely satisfied. Though no one would call him a serious thinker, there is a wide gap in education and experience between him and Agafia, who is incurious and more or less illiterate: “To any question that did not concern some positive goal known to her, she replied with a grin and silence.” A regényhős neve köznevesült és Oroszországban a semmittevés szinonimájává vált. [1] Dobroljubov a mű kapcsán írta meg egyik alapművét Mi az oblomovizmus? címmel (1859). There are novels so good that you pass them on to others to read. There are other novels so good that you want to keep them to yourself, as a kind of secret, like Silas Marner's gold under the floorboards. This is one for the floorboards.

Gontšarov toimi amiraali Jefimi Putjatinin sihteerinä tämän "maailmanympäryspurjehduksella" höyryfregatti Palladalla vuosina 1852–1855.

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He taught me how to have fun and made me realise you don't have to accept what is handed out to you in life. Oblomov was adapted to the cinema screen in the Soviet Union by Nikita Mikhalkov in 1980, as A Few Days from the Life of I.I. Oblomov. This film was later named Best Foreign Language Film for 1981 by the U.S. National Board of Review. [15] Two people try their best to save Oblomov. First Stolz, the half-German entrepreneur, as lean as an English racehorse where Oblomov is fat and flabby, uses reason and intellectual appeal to convince Oblomov to change. Then Olga, already adapted to a modern intelligentsia but preserving a deep love for Russia’s cultural past, lures him with promises of selfless love. Sexually aroused, Oblomov briefly responds to her, but when he finds that Olga also demands intellectual arousal, constant mental awareness, he takes flight. The equally dull-witted widow offers both maternal and mistress services without the necessity of mental effort.See Larry R. Andrews, ‘The Spatial Imagery of Oblomovism’, Neophilologus 72, no. 3 (July 1988): 321–34, for a reading of the novel as a case study in neurotic self-enclosure where the dressing-gown—‘a symptom of incomplete self-definition’ (321)—is the most intimate of the protective layers that Oblomov interposes between himself and otherness. ed. Goncharov’s “Oblomov”: A Critical Companion. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, 1998. The first part of the book finds Oblomov in bed one morning. He receives a letter from the manager of his country estate, Oblomovka, explaining that the financial situation is deteriorating and that he must visit to make some major decisions. But Oblomov can barely leave his bedroom, much less journey a thousand miles into the country. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p "I.A.Goncharov. Biobibliography". Russian Writers. Biobibliographical dictionary. Ed. P.A.Nikolayev. Vol.1 Moscow, Prosveshcheniye Publishers. 1990 . Retrieved 10 October 2011. Isä Aleksandr Ivanovitš Gontšarov (1754-1819) ja äiti Avdotja Matvejevna Šaktorina (1785-1851) kuuluivat varakkaaseen kauppiasluokkaan. Isä kuoli kun Ivan oli seitsemänvuotias ja hänen kasvatuksestaan alkoi huolehtia kummisetä, eläkkeellä oleva merimies Nikolai Nikolajevitš Tregubov. Gontšarov sai peruskoulutuksensa kotona ensin Tregubovin valvonnassa ja sitten yksityisessä sisäoppilaitoksessa Arkhangelskoje-Repjovkan kylässä. Kymmenenvuotiaana hänet lähetettiin Moskovaan opiskelemaan kaupalliseen kouluun, jossa hänen vanhempi veljensä Nikolai oli jo opiskellut. Gontšarov vietti koulussa kahdeksan vuotta 1822-1830. Vaikka koulutus ei juuri kiinnostanut häntä, hänen nimensä sijoitettiin säännöllisesti koulun kunniataululle. [2] [3]

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Dobrolyubov, Nikolay (1859). Что такое обломовщина?[What is Oblomovism?]. Отеч. записки (in Russian) (I–IV) . Retrieved 9 November 2006.Goncharov, Ivan Aleksandrovich (27 September 2018). "A common story, a novel". London, London Book Co. – via Internet Archive.

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After five weeks at the Lyric, the show transferred to the Comedy Theatre in the West End, where it was retitled Son Of Oblomov. A regényt többek között Nyikita Mihalkov, Oscar-díjas filmrendező filmesítette meg az Oblomov néhány napja (Несколько дней из жизни И. И. Обломова) című filmben. A film címszerepét Oleg Tabakov alakította. But by the end of the third week, Spike forgot his lines, shouted for a prompt and began to ad-lib furiously.Her fondest memory of their time together during the play was when he would invite her to his dressing room in the second interval.