Saturday August 09, 2014

I’m surprised that Oblomov is not a more famous novel. Of course, maybe surprise is silly, since the fact that I read it 150 years after it was written (and in a different language) shows that it’s more famous than 99.9% of all published novels.

It’s a very subtle book. The hero is Ilya Oblomov, who's a really, really lazy nobleman. So lazy that he spend…