Oblomov – Usado

Oblomov lies in bed, pondering one vital, earth-shattering question: Should he get up? Thus we meet one of the greatest creations in all Russian literature – Oblomov, good-natured and indolent, with the mind of a reasonable man and the ambition of a giant sloth, wearily reclining while a procession of visitors pleads with him to change his ways. We are drawn to this strange figure in the same way as is the energetic Stolz or the beautiful and vivacious Olga. Fascinated, we watch the meanderings of his life, his attempts at reform, his inevitable descent to his peculiar fate with the interest we usually reserve for he plight of a friend, a brother, or our very selves. Oblomov’s idiosyncrasies are universal, and ‘Oblomovism’ knows no class, no era, no country; it finds a home in a very human heart.