Imprint: Cardenio Press Ltd
Published: tba
ISBN: 9781838357443
Length: 496 Pages
Dimensions: 195mm x 25mm x 129mm
Weight: 580gm
RRP: £10.99
Oblomov
SKU: CP0005
£10.99Price
Powerful critique of 19th-century Russia, contrasting aristocrats with the merchant class and condemning the feudal system. Its hero, Oblomov, is a generous but indecisive young nobleman who loses the woman he loves to a vigorous, pragmatic friend. A perpetual daydreamer, he lives his life in his mind and spends his time in bed. From this character derives the Russian term oblomovshchina, epitomizing the backwardness, inertia, and futility of 19th-century Russian society.