Goncharov's novel portrays a gentle landowner so paralyzed by inertia that he can barely leave his bed, even as life and love pass him by. “Oblomovism” became a Russian byword for the fatal apathy of the old gentry.
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Goncharov's novel portrays a gentle landowner so paralyzed by inertia that he can barely leave his bed, even as life and love pass him by. “Oblomovism” became a Russian byword for the fatal apathy of the old gentry.