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Best books to read after Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov
If Oblomov's magnificent inertia captivated you, these picks explore the superfluous man, Russian provincialism, and the gap between idealism and action that defines nineteenth-century Russian fiction.
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Fathers and Sons
by Ivan Turgenev
Bazarov is everything Oblomov is not — and just as doomed in his own way.
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A Common Story
by Ivan Goncharov
Goncharov's debut — another young man's idealism ground down by Petersburg practicality.
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Dead Souls
by Nikolai Gogol
The provincial Russian landscape Oblomov dreams of — rendered in grotesque comic satire.
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The Cherry Orchard
by Anton Chekhov
Chekhov's inheritors of Oblomov — a family unable to act until they have lost everything.
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Uncle Vanya
by Anton Chekhov
Vanya's wasted life and futile rage — oblomovshchina on stage.
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Notes from Underground
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The underground man is the anti-Oblomov — paralysed by will rather than its absence.
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Rudin
by Ivan Turgenev
The superfluous man as eloquent idealist — all speeches and no action.
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The Precipice
by Ivan Goncharov
Goncharov's final novel — a different kind of paralysis in the Russian provinces.
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