Oblomov

There is a crustacean called a hermit crab that lives its entire life hiding from the world in a seashell… This is the way Ilya Ilyich Oblomov exists among other human beings… He was a man of about thirty-two or three, of medium height and pleasant appearance, with dark grey eyes, but with a total ab......more

It was the moment of solemn stillness in nature, when the creative mind works more actively, poetic thoughts glow more fervently, the heart burns with passion more ardently or suffers more bitter anguish, when the seed of a criminal design ripens unhindered in a cruel soul, when….everhtying in Ob......more

Mi-e atît de lene să scriu o recenzie, e atît de bine în pat, n-are nici un rost să mă scol, să merg la birou, să deschid laptopul etc. etc., încît nu pot decît să vă îndemn să citiți romanul lui Goncearov... *** După 3 ore. Cu un suprem efort de care sînt foarte mîndru, transcriu dintr-o recenzie mai......more

If Oblomov was Hamlet the famous soliloquy would have been “To get off my arse or not to get off my arse, that is the question” but actually there wouldn’t have been a soliloquy because Oblomov wouldn’t have bothered with anything hard like that. There would just be the sound of light snoring. Never......more