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Gentle, intelligent Oblomov completely fails to deal with life. He lives in a flat in St Petersburg. He is always about to go and sort out his estate but he rarely gets out of bed. Never doing today what he can put off till tomorrow, Oblomov is a tragic-comic hero for a couch potato generation.
Starring Toby Jones as Oblomov, Trevor Peacock as Zahar and Claire Skinner as Olga. Singer: Olivia Robinson and pianist: Helen Crayford.
Dramatised by Stephen Wyatt Director Claire Grove
That rare beast, a C19th Russian comedy. Oblomov is the story of a man too indolent for life. His friends worry about him, he worries - a little - about himself. His friends talk about him, he talks - a lot - about himself. He dies. Its supporters (there are many) describe it as an allegory of the superfluous nature of the Russian aristocracy, a humorous satire. In translation - and 150 years after its creation - its purpose and bite have both been attentuated. It's worth reading as a curiosity, but, like its principal character, I kept putting off finishing it because it lacks vigour.
Mogu ja shvatiti važnost ovog romana za rusku književnost i uviđam one osobine zbog kojih se smatra tekovinom koja je učvršćivala temelje realizma, ali 10 godina koliko je trebalo Gončarovu da napiše ovaj roman, toliko je trebalo meni da ga pročitam.
Oblomov je toliko lijen, beživotan a paradoksalno tome, njegov unutrašnji svijet je toliko živ. On je romantičar u svijetu koji ne trpi romantičare. Zapeo je na jednoj stepenici koja je odavno istrulila i on truli sa njom jer nema snage, a i ne želi, da prihvati novi način života.
Onoliko koliko je njemu trebalo da ustane i obuče papuče, toliko je meni trebalo da se natjeram i da pročitam ovo do kraja.
KOliko god moj profesor govorio da je to jedan od najljepših ruskih romana, ipak ću se držati svog subjektivnog mišljenja i u periodu realizma i romana koji su mu udarili temelje i kazati da je to roman 'Očevi i djeca' Ivana Turgenjeva.