The Way a River Went - Following the Volga Through the Heart of Russia by Thom Wheeler

Author:Thom Wheeler
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Summersdale Publishers Ltd
Published: 2015-08-12T00:00:00+00:00

It might seem strange, even impossible that in the course of one month the whole of the novel might be written… but it had been growing in me for several years, so what I had to do now was just sit and write everything down.

Oblomov was considered in retrospect a Russian classic. Among other achievements, it introduced into the literary lexicon the term oblomovshchina, which encapsulates a new type of Russian man. Almost uniquely, oblomovshchina exposes a single but striking feature of Russian society – that of social apathy, a self destructive laziness, symptoms of which are a complete lack of ambition and an inability to plan beyond the next day. Other great characters of Russian literature had displayed elements of the condition – Onegin, Pechorin and Rudin – but never had it so fully possessed a character as it does Oblomov. The great Anton Chekhov said that Goncharov was 'ten heads above me in talent', while Turgenev said, 'As long as there is just one Russian alive, Oblomov will be remembered!'

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