Oblomov - Ivan Goncharov In Caracas

In Caracas

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Hindou is married off to a man she does not know or want

listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer at the kitchen table

from exotic Southern tales to comic parodies and fairy tales of enchanted tsars

Oblomov - Ivan Goncharov In CaracasIlya Ilyich Oblomov is a member of Russia's dying aristocracy a man so lazy that he has given up his job in the Civil Service, neglected his books, insulted his friends and found himself in debt. Too apathetic to do anything about his problems, he lives in a grubby, crumbling apartment, waited on by Zakhar, his equally idle servant. Terrified by the bustle and activity necessary to participate in the real world, Oblomov manages to avoid work, postpone