Moscow: Exmo, 2010. 608 pages, hardcover, dust-jacketed. ISBN: 978-5-699-18825-3.Ivan Goncharov's novel, "Oblomov," is one of the most thorough examinations of the Russian character. Ilya Oblomov has come to represent laziness and a fear of change, but Goncharov finds much more than that in Oblomov's character: he also embodies a lack of desire to participate in society and progress, and the rejection of a life in which there is no chance to stop and ask, "What is it all for?" "Oblomov" is a story about a tender soul, and an exploration of the Russian character. In Russian.
