Oblomov

"Oblomov" is one of my old favorites, but that's not an association I would have made.

Two Views on the Classics William Harryman 2007

He learned to love traveling, and while a student at Oxford he spent several months in Russia, returning years later to produce "Oblomov" for the BBC (starring George Wendt of "Cheers").

ABC Family's Paul Lee: "We're in a Glory Period for Dramatic Television" 2006

* Goncharov devoted a whole novel, "Oblomov," to the elaboration of this particular type.

Essays on Russian Novelists William Lyon Phelps 1904

Beckett read and greatly admired Goncharov's novel ” his lover Peggy Guggenheim actually called Beckett "Oblomov" ” and his indolent narrators bear the mark.

Oblomov in Dublin O'Toole, Fintan 2009

Gerry and his dying mother talk about Russian literature, and she leaves a final message tucked inside her copy of Oblomov.

The Guard – review 2011

Ivan Goncharov's eponymous hero Oblomov, whom we meet in the novel's first sentence "lying in bed one morning," is the great pioneer of "serene unconcern" and the joys of not leaving one's bedroom:

Oblomov in Dublin O'Toole, Fintan 2009

The common influence of Oblomov on their narrators 'habits is just one similarity.

Oblomov in Dublin O'Toole, Fintan 2009

Here was proof as if it was needed that my isolated weeks in Paris had turned me into a real Oblomov – inept when it came to social niceties or even managing to sustain a simple dialogue with someone else.

The Woman in the Fifth Douglas Kennedy 2007

Georgette Heyer's regency romances elicit comparisons to Patrick O'Brian and Jane Austen, and Ivan Goncharov's Oblomov is called "a Slavic version of Forrest Gump."

Two Views on the Classics William Harryman 2007

Here was proof as if it was needed that my isolated weeks in Paris had turned me into a real Oblomov – inept when it came to social niceties or even managing to sustain a simple dialogue with someone else.

The Woman in the Fifth Douglas Kennedy 2007