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Oblomov
also: Обломов
Ivan Goncharov's 1859 novel, mistakenly attributed to Turgenev by Zina in a discussion of anti-serfdom literature -- the misattribution underscores the story's satire of shallow literary talk.
Reading notes
- To A. S. Suvorin, May 1889. Sumy. §4 His "Oblomov" is really quite a poor thing
Goncharov's 1859 novel; Chekhov's target for the letter's main critical set-piece, faulted for an overdrawn central figure, half-invented supporting cast, and a pervasive coldness.
- In the Landau §13 Oblomov
Ivan Goncharov's 1859 novel, not Turgenev's -- Zina's mistaken attribution (conflating it with Turgenev's anti-serfdom fiction) is itself part of the story's joke about shallow literary talk.