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What Is Oblomovism

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  • In Nikolay Aleksandrovich Dobrolyubov

    …best known for his essay “What is Oblomovism” (1859–60). The essay deals with the phenomenon represented by the character Oblomov in Ivan Goncharov’s novel of that name. It established the term Oblomovism as a name for the superfluous man of Russian life and literature.

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