Oblomov

16 hrs. 15 min.

Classics

Language Russian

Author Ivan Goncharov

Narrator Alexander Shunin

Description

The novel tells the life story of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov. He lives in St. Petersburg and practically never leaves the house, not even getting up from the couch. Ilya Ilyich does no activity, appears nowhere—he only thinks about how one should live and dreams of a cozy, trouble-free life in Oblomovka dear to his heart. Problems do not concern him—either the decline of the household or the looming eviction from his apartment cannot move him from the couch. Only Stolz, his childhood friend, the complete opposite of the slow, dreamy Oblomov, forced the hero to wake up for a time, plunge into life—before he finally withers away in “Oblomovism.”