Oblomov
19 hrs. 34 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Ivan Goncharov
Author
Ivan Goncharov
Narrator
Ilya Akintyev
Narrator
Ilya Akintyev
Description
“As long as there is even one Russian, as long will Oblomov be remembered.” I. S. Turgenev
When I. A. Goncharov’s novel “Oblomov” was published in 1859, readers could hardly have known that they were holding one of the “cornerstone” books of Russian literature. Goncharov not only showed an astonishing, paradoxical type of Russian person, but also made the character’s name a household word—defining a mindset and way of life as “Oblomovism.”
“Oblomov” is a “golden classic” of Russian literature. An original, ambiguous book—one that is seen both as the benchmark of critical realism and as a novel openly satirical…
But all critics agree on one thing: “Oblomov is the most brilliant and splendid phenomenon of Russian prose—an event whose significance has not faded even today!”…
“The ‘adult’ Ilya Ilyich, even after learning that there are no honey and milk rivers, no kind fairy-tale women, even as he jokes with a smile about his nurse’s stories, has a smile that isn’t sincere—it comes with a secret sigh: his fairy tales have mixed with life, and sometimes he unconsciously feels sad—why are tales not life, and why is life not a tale?
He is involuntarily dreaming of Militrisa Kirbityevna; everything pulls him in the direction where they only know how to go for walks, where there are no worries and sorrows—and forever, he has a disposition to lie on the stove, to wear ready-made, never-earned clothing, and to eat at the expense of a kind fairy-tale woman.”
I. A. Goncharov
When I. A. Goncharov’s novel “Oblomov” was published in 1859, readers could hardly have known that they were holding one of the “cornerstone” books of Russian literature. Goncharov not only showed an astonishing, paradoxical type of Russian person, but also made the character’s name a household word—defining a mindset and way of life as “Oblomovism.”
“Oblomov” is a “golden classic” of Russian literature. An original, ambiguous book—one that is seen both as the benchmark of critical realism and as a novel openly satirical…
But all critics agree on one thing: “Oblomov is the most brilliant and splendid phenomenon of Russian prose—an event whose significance has not faded even today!”…
“The ‘adult’ Ilya Ilyich, even after learning that there are no honey and milk rivers, no kind fairy-tale women, even as he jokes with a smile about his nurse’s stories, has a smile that isn’t sincere—it comes with a secret sigh: his fairy tales have mixed with life, and sometimes he unconsciously feels sad—why are tales not life, and why is life not a tale?
He is involuntarily dreaming of Militrisa Kirbityevna; everything pulls him in the direction where they only know how to go for walks, where there are no worries and sorrows—and forever, he has a disposition to lie on the stove, to wear ready-made, never-earned clothing, and to eat at the expense of a kind fairy-tale woman.”
I. A. Goncharov
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