biography
| name: |
Goncharov, Ivan Alexandrovich
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pronunciation:
[goncharof]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1812–91)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Simbirsk, W Russia. He graduated from Moscow University (1834), led an uneventful life in the civil service, and wrote Oblomov (1858), a leading work of Russian Realism. In it he creates one of the great myths of the Russian man, presenting him as lazy, impractical, and fatalistic, thus creating a literary archetype recognized the world over. |
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