A kindly, paralyzingly lazy nobleman lets life, love, and his estate slip away rather than rise from his sofa. Goncharov's great comic-tragic portrait of inertia.
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Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace: “Two or three upperclassmen in Levy-Richardson-O'Byrne-Chawaf's Disciplinary Lit. were slumped over Goncharov's Oblomov, looking very unhappy indeed.”