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Oblomov

by Ivan Goncharov

1913 · literary fiction · adult

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Set in 2 places · 2 primary
Sense of Place
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A comedic story about a member of the landed gentry of nineteenth-century Russia whose indolence destroys his life.

Set in

  • ★
    Saint Petersburg · Russia
    St. Petersburg; nobleman Oblomov lies in his apartment daydreaming, the embodiment of the 19th-century 'superfluous man'
    ★ primary
  • ★
    Saint Petersburg
    ★ primary

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