Tom Hodgkinson

Tolstoy’s favourite novel is a guide to being idle

A review of Oblomov, by Ivan Goncharov, translated by Stephen Pearl. But like many apparent idlers, Oblomov isn’t really lazy – he just spends a lot of time in bed

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    Ivan Goncharov (translated by Stephen Pearl)

    Alma Classics, pp. 582

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