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Oblomov
Publisher: Bunim & Bannigan$20.00Even though Ivan Goncharov wrote several books that were widely read and discussed during his lifetime, today he is remembered for one novel, Oblomov, published in 1859, an indisputable classic of Russian literature, the artistic stature and cultural significance of which may be compared only to other such masterpieces as Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Souls, Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, and Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov. Stephen Pearl’s new translation, the first major English-language publication of Oblomov in more than fifty years, succeeds exquisitely to introduce this astonishing and endearing novel to a new generation of readers.Review”[Goncharov is ten heads above me in talent.”—Anton Chekhov(Anton Chekhov )“Oblomov is a truly great work, the likes of which one has not seen for a long, long time. I am in rapture over Oblomov and keep rereading it.”—Leo Tolstoy(Leo Tolstoy )
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The Same Old Story
Publisher: Bunim & Bannigan$19.99Goncharov’s first novel, Obyknovennaya istoriya or “The Same Old Story,” wittily presents the conflicts between the excessive romanticism of a young Russian nobleman freshly arrived in Saint Petersburg from the provinces and the sober pragmatism of his bourgeois uncle. It appeared in 1847 in the periodical “The Contemporary,” and created a sensation, marking the debut of one of Russia?s greatest writers. It deserves an equal place with Goncharov’s classic Oblomov.
