SOURCE: "Life and How to Live It," an introduction to The Same Old Story, by Ivan Goncharov, translated by Ivy Litvinova, Progress Publishers, 1975, pp. 7-14.
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).
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