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"Tell me, Ivan Alexandrovich, why do all your works always begin with the syllable 'ob'?" I. A. Goncharov, the author of the famous novels An Ordinary Story, Oblomov, and The Precipice, was once asked. The writer replied that it was just a coincidence. His contemporaries thought otherwise: the books were considered a trilogy, each part of which described a certain stage in the life of Russia in the 1840s–1860s. Goncharov worked slowly and with concentration: twelve years passed between his debut novel An Ordinary Story (which was greeted with delight even by critics) and Oblomov, which was recognized as a classic soon after its publication. His last novel, The Precipice, took even longer to write — twenty years. "It couldn't have been otherwise," Goncharov reasoned. "It was written as a period of life itself dragged on." The presentiments, anxieties and hopes of the people of that time are described by Goncharov with amazing completeness and accuracy, but the eternal questions about love and betrayal, creativity and talent interested the writer no less.
After ten years spent in the capital, the aspiring writer Boris Raisky returns to his estate. Here he is convinced that “life is a novel, and a novel is life”: in a quiet corner on the banks of the Volga, comedy and tragedy, idyll and drama are more closely connected than in books full of fire and passion.
This edition reproduces rare illustrations for the novel by the artist Pyotr Naumovich Pinkisevich (1925–2004).
After ten years spent in the capital, the aspiring writer Boris Raisky returns to his estate. Here he is convinced that “life is a novel, and a novel is life”: in a quiet corner on the banks of the Volga, comedy and tragedy, idyll and drama are more closely connected than in books full of fire and passion.
This edition reproduces rare illustrations for the novel by the artist Pyotr Naumovich Pinkisevich (1925–2004).
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Russian Literature. Big Books