SOURCE: "Concerning a Monistic Conception of Goncharov's Art," in Soviet Studies in Literature, Vol. XXII, No. 2-3, Spring-Summer, 1986, pp. 90-122.
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 heroes as manifestations of the bourgeois "smart operator" at a time of dramatic social and cultural change in Russia.
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