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This was recommended to me by a former professor of Russian history. It is a wonderful story that should be more widely read. It is a funny and absorbing read - not the dark sort of novel that one sometimes associates with Russian literature. The translation reads very smoothly.

Not read it yet. Heard it on the radio. Wonderful.

This was a step above Talstoy, dare I say it, in terms of character psychological conplexity. I thought it was a bit of a masterpiece of writing

Book group monthly read.

This is amusing and very readable, perhaps the most accessible of Russian Classics but it goes off the boil as Oblomov's passions increase. The descriptions of c19th Russian rural society were for me the most interesting passages and not what I'd actually proposed reading it for. Final analysis...too longwinded in narrative and overlong.

Really enjoyed this a great read, a life style to aspire to.

Fantastic book for reading aloud

Fine

We all know Oblomov. Goncharov makes his title character sympathetic if not heroic. That's a lot for someone who doesn't do anything.

Printed price is only around 200-250 Rs (two hundred).

In this sendup of Russian nobility, the title character spends much of his time on his couch, suspended in both physical and psychological inertia, unable to make a decision in his own best interest. Yet the story is entertaining and the translation gives it a contemporary feel.

While I haven’t checked it word-for-word against the Russian text, I can say that it flows and that it brings out the comedy and the satire of this brilliant book. The fact that it is said to have been Tolstoy’s favorite novel says it all for a readership interested in the time period. The first third is brilliant comedy, the middle section about romance and ultimate disappointment is psychologically accurate, but not all that exciting. It picks up again in the closing section. A well-known, but oft-overlooked masterpiece from the period of Russian writing genius that gave us Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol—and their equal Goncharev.

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