内容简介
Thesly,subversivesideofthenineteenth-centuryRussianliterarycharacter--theonewhichrepresentssuchacontrasttothetitanicexertionsofTolstoyandDostoevsky--wasmostfullyrealizedinIvanGoncharov's1859masterpiece,Oblomov.Thismagnificentfarceaboutagentlemanwhospendsthebetterpartofhislifeinbedisareminderoftheextenttowhichhumor,inthehandsofacomicgenius,canbeusedtoexploretheabsurditiesandinjusticesofasocialorder.Goncharov'sgentlesatireonthefailingsof19th-centuryRussiangentryandbureaucracyturnsintosomethingdeeperandricherthansatire,asheprobesthecharacterofaprotagonistwhoseconstitutionallethargybecomesasymbolforthemalaiseofthehumanspiritinanalienatingworld.(BookJacketStatus:NotJacketed)
作者简介
RichardFreebornisEmeritusProfessorofEnglishLiteratureattheUniversityofLondon.HehastranslatedandeditedmanynovelsbyTurgenev,andistheauthorofTurgenev,theNovelist'sNovelist,TheRiseoftheRussianNovel,andTheRussianRevolutionaryNovel.,,