The Russian novelist Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov (1812-1891) is one of the great realists of Russian literature. His novel "Oblomov" is a classic of Russian fiction.Ivan Goncharov was born of a well...
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Although Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov wrote several books that were widely read and discussed during his lifetime, he is now best remembered for one novel, Oblomov (1859), an indisputable classic of ...
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In the following essay, Gosse describes Goncharov's literary influences and the lasting appeal of his novels.
It is a disadvantage to Gontcharoff to be introduced for the first time to Engli...
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In the following essay originally published in Literaturovedenie. Sbornik statei in 1928, Pereverzev presents a unified assessment of Goncharov's novels, identifying the common traits of his he...
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In the following essay, Gifford analyzes Goncharov's A Common Story, Oblomov, and The Precipice, comparing these novels with the works of Goncharov's Russian contemporaries and examining...
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In the following essay, Rozov explores two contrasting views of life—the idealistic and the pragmatic—dramatized in Goncharov's The Same Old Story (A Common Story).
The author ...
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In the following two chapters from her book-length study, Dimeni examines Goncharov's use of autobiographical material in his novel A Common Story, surveying the history of autobiography in Rus...
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Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov
Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov
Critical Essay by Edmund Gosse
