Oblomov
The novel Oblomov is a recognized work of Ivan Gontcharov, published for the first time in 1859.
With saying Tolstoï, Oblomov is a capital work. Dostoïevski, for its part, affirms that the account “is been useful by a dazzling talent”. This social novel was paid with the author: 10000 roubles by the editor of the Russian Memories nationals, in which it was published in 1859. This detail is enough to give an idea of the popularity whose the writer enjoyed alive sound. Its hero is a Russian literary myth, as present as Faust or Don Juan. Oblomov , idle aristocrat, is in the Russian culture the prototype of the lazy and poor man, who sacrifices his dreams to a lethargy, that it however saw like a drama. The hero éponyme of the novel of Gontcharov is a young aristocrat who seems unable to make decisions or to carry out the least important action. He leaves only seldom his room or his bed.
This book is regarded as a satire of the Russian nobility of the 19th century. He was a great success in Russia and belonged to the Russian culture. Oblomov is in the Russian language a word which nominates an inactive and weak person.
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