Обломов
Oblomov
C2 · Proficient · fiction · 740 scenes · Premium story
Goncharov’s 1859 novel, complete: Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, a gentle landowner who cannot bring himself to leave his bed, is pulled at by everyone around him — his energetic friend Stolz, the young Olga who falls in love with him, the swindlers who share his rooms, and his own dream of Oblomovka, the sleeping estate of his childhood. A comic masterpiece about inertia, and one of the most exact books ever written about why people do not change.
Characters
- Ilya Ilyich Oblomov (Илья Ильич Обломов) — The hero
- Andrey Stolz (Андрей Штольц) — His friend
- Olga Ilyinskaya (Ольга Ильинская) — The woman he loves
- Zahar (Захар) — The servant
- Anisya (Анисья) — The cook
- Tarantyev (Михей Андреевич Тарантьев) — The sponger
- Ivan Mukhoyarov (Иван Матвеевич Мухояров) — The swindler
- Agafya Matveyevna (Агафья Матвеевна Пшеницына) — The landlady
Vocabulary from this story
- обломовщина — Oblomovism, the habit of inertia
- лень — laziness
- апатия — apathy
- диван — sofa
- халат — dressing gown
- кресло — armchair
- сон — sleep, dream
- мечта — dream, daydream
- покой — rest, peace
- скука — boredom
- тоска — melancholy, longing
- равнодушие — indifference