Showing posts with label Oblomov. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oblomov. Show all posts

Friday, November 26, 2010

Reading: Ivan Goncharov "Oblomov" (1859)

When I was 15 Russian classic literature seemed so boring for me and each novel was so endless, that I thought after graduation from school I would never ever return to it...
But time passed and Oblomov - 30 year old hero of this novel by Russian classic author Ivan Goncharov - who seemed some "lazy old guy with strange thoughts and problems" at that time, today when you are 24 year old suddenly becomes so close, his problems have so much in common with what you think and feel now...
So time came to reread classic and "Oblomov" was first one- novel about apathy which can ruin life of even the kindest people...