Oblomov (Penguin Classics)

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Oblomov: Romaani. (Oblomov, 1859.) Suomentanut Juhani Konkka. 3. painos (1. painos 1961). Helsinki: Kirjayhtymä, 1991. ISBN 951-26-3588-7. The play kept running as an improv comedy. This decision soon caused it to break all box office records at the Lyric. After five weeks it was rechristened Son of Oblomov and on December 2nd 1964 moved to the Comedy Theatre in the West End. It would run there for a total of 559 performances. As the play was substantially new for each performance it drew record numbers of repeat traffic. [13] [12] 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.

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Na hamletovskou otázku „ Být či nebýt?“ Oblomov odpovídá „Ne“. Na prvních asi sto padesáti stranách románu vůbec neopouští svůj pokoj a jen zřídka vyleze z postele. Sice neustále plánuje různá vylepšení na svém chátrajícím statku Oblomovka, ale nikdy je nerealizuje a ani nesepíše.they all froze. The mistress’s countenance even changed a little. All eyes were aimed at and all noses pointed toward the letter…. “Stop, don’t break the seal, Ilya Ivanich,” his wife insisted tearfully. “Who knows what kind of letter is in there? It might be something terrible, some disaster.” In 1834, Goncharov graduated from the University and returned home to enter the chancellery of Simbirsk governor A. M. Zagryazhsky. A year later, he moved to Saint Petersburg and started working as a translator at the Finance Ministry's Foreign commerce department. Here, in the Russian capital, he became friends with the Maykov family and tutored both Apollon Maykov and Valerian Maykov in the Latin language and in Russian literature. [6] He became a member of the elitist literary circle based in the Maykovs' house and attended by writers like Ivan Turgenev, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Dmitry Grigorovich. The Maykovs' almanac Snowdrop featured many of Goncharov's poems, but he soon stopped dabbling in poetry altogether. Some of those early verses were later incorporated into the novel A Common Story as Aduev's writings, a sure sign that the author had stopped taking them seriously. [6] [7] Literary career [ edit ] Portrait of Goncharov by Kirill Gorbunov, 1847 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." Oblomov always thought that he would become patriarch of the estate in the mold of his father. But his is the first generation of Russian provincial nobility who are supposed to go to university, join the civil service, live in Petersburg, and have ambitions, or at least acquire a sheen of cosmopolitanism. Oblomov chafed at having to study and work. “When am I to live? When am I to live?” he would ask himself. But what is living—is it to lose oneself in activity, or to enjoy stillness and peaceful contemplation? Oblomov, inclined to the latter, cleared his calendar of all conventional obligations to make time for “living,” only to find that life had slipped out of his grasp.

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His next piece, Oblomov, was just as successful, opening at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, in 1964. Oblomov, of course, recoils from doing work for any reason at all. But Stolz introduces him to a young woman, Olga, who makes it her mission to reform Oblomov’s sloth. Oblomov falls in love. He and Olga spend an enchanted summer strolling the grounds of her family’s country house. Under her influence, Oblomov gives up his naps and reads improving books. They agree to marry.

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Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov ( / ˈ ɡ ɒ n tʃ ə r ɒ f/, [1] also US: /- r ɔː f/; [2] Russian: Ива́н Алекса́ндрович Гончаро́в, tr. Iván Aleksándrovich Goncharóv, IPA: [ɪˈvan ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪdʑ ɡənʲtɕɪˈrof]; 18 June[ O.S. 6 June]1812 – 27 September[ O.S. 15 September]1891 [3]) was a Russian novelist best known for his novels The Same Old Story (1847), Oblomov (1859), and The Precipice (1869, also translated as Malinovka Heights). He also served in many official capacities, including the position of censor. The novel had considerable success, but the leftist press turned against its author. Saltykov-Shchedrin in Otechestvennye Zapiski ("The Street Philosophy", 1869), compared it unfavorably to Oblomov. While the latter "had been driven by ideas assimilated by its author from the best men of the 1840s", The Precipice featured "a bunch of people wandering to and fro without any sense of direction, their lines of action having neither beginning nor end," according to the critic. [7] Yevgeny Utin in Vestnik Evropy argued that Goncharov, like all writers of his generation, had lost touch with the new Russia. [13] The controversial character Mark Volokhov, as leftist critics saw it, had been concocted to condemn 'nihilism' again, thus making the whole novel 'tendentious'. Yet, as Vladimir Korolenko later wrote, "Volokhov and all things related to him will be forgotten, as Gogol's Correspondence has been forgotten, while Goncharov's huge characters will remain in history, towering over all of those spiteful disputes of old." [6] Later years [ edit ] Goncharov in 1886; photograph by Andrey Denyer Oblomov lakása pamlagán heverészik és ábrándozik nap mint nap. Gondolatban tele van reformokkal a világ megváltoztatása érdekében. Megváltoztatja fejben birtoka gazdasági rendjét: reformokat vezet be, amelyek éppúgy szolgálják az ő érdekét, mint a jobbágyaiét.

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Goncharov first thought of writing Oblomov in the mid-1840s, soon after publishing his first novel A Common Story. [2] In 1849 he wrote "Episode from an Unfinished Novel: Oblomov's Dream", a short story that was published in the literary journal Sovremennik. [2] At that point Goncharov had just started writing his novel, and Oblomov was published ten years later, with "Oblomov's Dream" as Chapter 9 in Part 1. Sussman, Henry. 1993. Psyche and Text: The Sublime and the Grandiose in Literature, Psychopathology, and Culture. New York: State University of New York Press. Heartwarming, moving, often funny and so recogniz Wallace, Nathaniel. 2016. Scanning the Hypnoglyph: Sleep in Modernist and Postmodern Representation. Leiden: Brill. 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.

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Instead of love, Oblomov finds ease. Agafia Mateveyvna demands nothing of him, she is pleased to make him comfortable in her house and thinks it right that a gentleman (as opposed to a person of the urban middle class like herself) should lie around all day. Goncharov makes a point of the fact that she is enlarged and fulfilled by their companionship, while Oblomov is merely satisfied. Though no one would call him a serious thinker, there is a wide gap in education and experience between him and Agafia, who is incurious and more or less illiterate: “To any question that did not concern some positive goal known to her, she replied with a grin and silence.” This misperception attests Goncharov’s balancing skill. Alexander is lured from his peaceful, idyllic estate, lovingly presented in the fragrance of its lilacs, berries, bushes, and forests, by visions of cosmopolitan dazzle. Once he is taken in hand by a “new man,” his coldly efficient, philistine uncle, Peter, one disappointmentsucceeds another. Like an early Oblomov, Alexander adjusts only superficially, never able to integrate his rustic values with St. Petersburg’s diverse phenomena. Like a young Goncharov, Alexander blunders from one unsuccessful love affair to another. His literary endeavors, characterized by overblown sentimental clichés, are equally fruitless. Despite all efforts by Peter, he turns into a rather ridiculous figure, an out-of-place relic in the bustling city. Goncharov’s ambiguous attitude, however, gives enough scope to elicit a measure of pity from the reader, to mark the young man’s discomforts and his inability to cope. Maguire, Robert A. “The City.” In The Cambridge Companion to the Classic Russian Novel, edited by Malcolm V. Jones and Robin Feuer Miller. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Goncsarov tizenkét éven át írta a regényt – többek között Belinszkij biztatására – miközben sokáig vezető állami hivatalnokként dolgozott. A regény végül 1859-ben jelent meg.Goncharov's first piece of prose appeared in an issue of Snowdrop, a satirical novella called Evil Illness (1838), ridiculing romantic sentimentalism and fantasizing. Another novella, A Fortunate Blunder, a "high-society drama" in the tradition set by Marlinsky, Vladimir Odoevsky, and Vladimir Sollogub, [6] tinged with comedy, appeared in another privately published almanac, Moonlit Nights, in 1839. [7] In 1842 Goncharov wrote an essay called Ivan Savvich Podzhabrin, a natural school psychological sketch. Published in Sovremennik six years later, it failed to make any impact, being very much a period piece, but later scholars reviewed it positively, as something in the vein of the Nikolay Gogol-inspired genre known as the "physiological essay", marked by a fine style and precision in depicting the life of the common man in the city. [7] In the early 1840s Goncharov worked on a novel called The Old People, but the manuscript has been lost. [6] The Same Old Story [ edit ] In "Son of Oblomov" on the London stage years ago, Spike Milligan and Bill Owen were a few minutes into the opening dialogue when Spike noticed some late-comers being shown to their seats. A regényhős neve köznevesült és Oroszországban a semmittevés szinonimájává vált. [1] Dobroljubov a mű kapcsán írta meg egyik alapművét Mi az oblomovizmus? címmel (1859).