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Blurb: “TRANSLATED WITH AN INTRODUCTION
BY DAVID MAGARSHACK
'Oblomov's indolent image was constantly thrust before my eyes in myself and others.
On its publication in 1859, Oblomov made Goncharov famous throughout Russia and ensured for him a prominent position among contemporary Russian novelists. As a boy, Goncharov was deeply struck by the carefree and idle lives of many of the nobility in his native town, and in his reminiscences he commented that he created Oblomov from both his personal observations and self-analysis.
The novel as a whole is a powerful condemnation of serfdom; its criticism is all the more effective for being indirect and implicit. But Goncharov's detached yet sympathetic portrait of the humdrum life of his ineffectual and slothful hero transforms the work into a tragi-comedy.
As David Magarshack says in his Introduction, 'Oblomov occupies a unique place among the great Russian masterpieces of the nineteenth century... and indeed the greatness of his novel as a work of art lies in the universality of its hero... There are thousands of Oblomovs scattered all over the world.'
The cover shows a detail from 'The Aristocrat at Breakfast' by P. A. Fedotov, in the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (photo: Snark International)”