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Ilya Ilyich Oblomov
Ilya Ilyich
also: Илья Ильич
Title character of Goncharov's novel "Oblomov", a chronically listless, sofa-bound landowner; Chekhov dismisses him here as an overdrawn, insubstantial figure -- "a flabby sluggard of a kind there are plenty of" -- not weighty enough to justify elevation into a social type or a whole novel.
Reading notes
- To A. S. Suvorin, May 1889. Sumy. §4 Ilya Ilyich himself, an overdrawn figure
The novel's title character, Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, a chronically listless landowner; Chekhov argues he is too slight and ordinary a "flabby sluggard" to bear the weight of being read as a social type.
Mentioned in 3 works (22 mentions)
The Wood Demon
- §56 Ilya Ilyich
- §114 Ilya Ilyich
- §304 Ilya Ilyich
- §547 Ilya Ilyich
- §1617 Ilya Ilyich
- §1628 Ilya Ilyich
- §1656 Ilya Ilyich
- §1674 Ilya Ilyich
- §1684 Ilya Ilyich
- §1705 Ilya Ilyich
- §1734 Ilya Ilyich
- §1776 Ilya Ilyich
- §1999 Ilya Ilyich
- §2078 Ilya Ilyich
- §2083 Ilya Ilyich
- §2116 Ilya Ilyich
- §2123 Ilya Ilyich