This romantic novel was considered a satire of Russian nobility whose social and economic function was increasingly in question in mid-nineteenth century Russia, and from it the word "Oblomovstchina" entered the Russian vocabulary. (Summary by Wikipedia and Kevin Davidson)

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Her heart was thumping with fear and when she spoke her lines to Spike, who lay in bed, he replied "Who are you?" Právě díky své titulní postavě se román stal mimořádně známý, název, který je v knize použit pro Oblomovův životní přístup, totiž oblomovština, pronikl i do češtiny.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. Because the management were scared of upsetting Spike, the cast had been forbidden from coming out of role. A later edition in 1862 included a number of changes made by Goncharov. An 1887 edition also featured revisions to the 1859 text and was his last approved edition. Scholars do not agree on which text should be considered canonical. [4] Plot summary [ edit ] Singleton, Amy C. 1997. No Place Like Home: The Literary Artist and Russia’s Search for Cultural Identity. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. Looking closely into and thinking hard about his daily life, as he became more and more accustomed to it, he finally decided that he did not need to go anywhere or search for anything else, that his life’s ideal had come to pass, albeit without poetry….

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Diment, Galya, ed. 1998. Goncharov’s ‘Oblomov’: A Critical Companion. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press. Olga is introduced to Oblomov by Stoltz and is included in Stoltz's attempts to reform Oblomov. Olga spends much of her time throughout the novel determined to change Oblomov's ways. She and Oblomov fall in love, and her efforts seem to be successful for a time, as Oblomov reads more novels and attends more social events. The two become engaged, but Oblomov's deep-set fear of moving forward prevent him from taking necessary steps toward actual marriage, and Olga breaks off the engagement. Olga then travels to Paris with her aunt, where she runs into Stoltz. The two fall in love and marry, moving to the Crimea. 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. LibriVox recording of Oblomov, by Ivan Goncharov, translated by C. J. Hogarth. Read by Kevin Davidson. Goncharov was born into the family of a wealthy merchant, elevated as a reward for military service of his grandfather to gentry status. A boarding school, then the Moscow college of commerce, and finally Moscow State University educated him. 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. People published A Common Story, first novel of Goncharov, in Sovremennik in 1847.

Heartwarming, moving, often funny and so recogniz Příběh se vyvíjí až v okamžiku, kdy mu Štolc představí svou známou Olgu, mladou a krásnou dívku a talentovanou zpěvačku, do které se Oblomov zamiluje. Ta ho ale donutí být aktivnější, více číst a chodit do společnosti, s pomocí Štolce Oblomov dokonce začne konečně na své vesnici provádět ona plánovaná zlepšení, takže začne opět prosperovat. Nikolai Dobrolyubov, in his 1859 article "What is Oblomovism?", [8] described the word as an integral part of Russian avos'. Stolz suggests that Oblomov's death was the result of "Oblomovism". [5]