Oblomov (Penguin Classics)

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She said: " He would pour me a glass of his favourite rose wine and talk about art and his children. He said I was a good listener and had humour to cover bad situations." Isä Aleksandr Ivanovitš Gontšarov (1754-1819) ja äiti Avdotja Matvejevna Šaktorina (1785-1851) kuuluivat varakkaaseen kauppiasluokkaan. Isä kuoli kun Ivan oli seitsemänvuotias ja hänen kasvatuksestaan alkoi huolehtia kummisetä, eläkkeellä oleva merimies Nikolai Nikolajevitš Tregubov. Gontšarov sai peruskoulutuksensa kotona ensin Tregubovin valvonnassa ja sitten yksityisessä sisäoppilaitoksessa Arkhangelskoje-Repjovkan kylässä. Kymmenenvuotiaana hänet lähetettiin Moskovaan opiskelemaan kaupalliseen kouluun, jossa hänen vanhempi veljensä Nikolai oli jo opiskellut. Gontšarov vietti koulussa kahdeksan vuotta 1822-1830. Vaikka koulutus ei juuri kiinnostanut häntä, hänen nimensä sijoitettiin säännöllisesti koulun kunniataululle. [2] [3]

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Spike had accused the man of sabotaging the play. They refused to look at each other on stage and eventually the man left. If he didn't like you, that was that." I think Paul Scofield had begun his great season of Lear, but when we arrived in London in the mid-1960s, the first play we saw was Son of Oblomov, purely because Spike Milligan was in it. Dobrolyubov, N. A. 1948. ‘What is Oblomovshchina?’ In Selected Philosophical Essays, trans. J. Fineberg, 174–217. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House. Goncharov was born in Simbirsk into the family of a wealthy merchant; as a reward for his grandfather's military service, they were elevated to Russian nobility status. [4] He was educated at a boarding school, then the Moscow College of Commerce, and finally at Moscow State University. After graduating, he served for a short time in the office of the Governor of Simbirsk, before moving to Saint Petersburg where he worked as government translator and private tutor, while publishing poetry and fiction in private almanacs. Goncharov's first novel, A Common Story, was published in Sovremennik in 1847. Chekhov, Anton. 2004. Anton Chekhov: A Life in Letters. Edited by Rosamund Bartlett and translated by Rosamund Bartlett and Anthony Phillips. London: Penguin.

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She said: "The last time I talked to him was last November. He called to have a chat and asked me what I was doing for Christmas. But he was quite poorly at that point." Diment, Galya. “The Two Faces of Ivan Goncharov: Autobiography and Duality in Obyknovennaia Istorija.” Slavic and East European Journal 32 (Fall, 1988). Agafia Pshenitsina is Oblomov's widowed landlady, who falls in love with him and holds him in high regard as a nobleman. She is also Ivan Matveyevich's sister. At the end of the story, it is revealed to Stoltz that Oblomov and Agafia are married with a son. Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov, (born June 18 [June 6, old style], 1812, Simbirsk [now Ulyanovsk], Russia—died Sept. 27 [Sept. 15, O.S.], 1891, St. Petersburg), Russian novelist and travel writer, whose highly esteemed novels dramatize social change in Russia and contain some of Russian literature’s most vivid and memorable characters.

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By presenting this type in his rather ordinary surroundings and endeavors, stripped of the Romantic aura with which Alexander Pushkin’s classical and Mikhail Lermontov’s Romantic verse had imbued him, Goncharov gained renown as a critical realist. While all three of his novels remain popular classics in his homeland, only Oblomov has found a wide readership and critical acclaim abroad. Emphasis on that work has caused modern Western scholars to value Goncharov as highly for his artful psychological portraits of stunted adults adrift in a changing world as for his sociological contribution. The first part of the book finds Oblomov in bed one morning. He receives a letter from the manager of his country estate, Oblomovka, explaining that the financial situation is deteriorating and that he must visit to make some major decisions. But Oblomov can barely leave his bedroom, much less journey a thousand miles into the country. Hell, it was only one play, not a sudden plague of ad-libbing. At one point Spike sang with a trio of actors up the front of the stage, then shook his head, despairing of their efforts, and reached out over the footlights, crying, "Is there a Bing Crosby in the house?"Oblomov's Dream. An Episode from an Unfinished Novel", short story, later Chapter 9 in the 1859 novel as "Oblomov's Dream" ("Сон Обломова", 1849) [21] a b c Potanin, G.N. "Remembering I.A.Goncharov. Commentaries. Pp. 263–265". I.A.Goncharov Remembered by Contemporaries. Leningrad, 1969. Archived from the original on 25 April 2012 . Retrieved 10 October 2011. Spike Milligan lay confined in bed on stage in one of his first serious lead roles in an adaptation of the 19th Century Russian novel Oblomov. Moser, Charles (30 April 1992). The Cambridge History of Russian Literature. Cambridge University Press. p.228. ISBN 9780521425674 . Retrieved 25 September 2018.