Ivan Goncharov

The Precipice is the third novel by Ivan Goncharov, first published in January–May 1869 issues of Vestnik Evropy magazine. The novel, conceived in 1849, took twenty years to be completed and has been preceded by the publication of the three extracts: "Sophja Nikolayevna Belovodova", "Grandmother" and "Portrait". The …

В навечерието е третият пореден роман на руския писател Иван Тургенев. Той е най-добре познат с разказите си и с романа Бащи и синове. В творбата си Тургенев украсява една любовна история с размисли за живота на средната класа, както и с малко изкуство и философска полемика. Николай Добролюбов се отнася критично към …

Set at the beginning of the nineteenth century, before the ideal of industrious modern man, when idleness was still looked upon by Russia's serf-owning rural gentry as a plausible and worthy goal, there was Oblomov. Indolent, inattentive, incurious, given to daydreaming and procrastination—indeed, given to any excuse …