Rupture — a novel by Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov, representing the final part of a distinctive trilogy “from one era of Russian life… to another” (it also includes the earlier works “An Ordinary Story” and “Oblomov”). Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov wrote: “For twenty years, this novel was being written— and there could be no other way. It was written the way the period of life itself was drawn out. In ‘Rupture,’ on my pigmaeans, in a tiny lake, there is reflected the state of fermentation, the struggle of the old with the new. I watched this reflection of the struggle in a familiar corner, among familiar faces.”