What a chapter. At first it felt like I was reading another author and that it was nothing to do with Oblomov but of course we got into their life.
Was that how the wealthy lived at that time or is it just them? We now understand Oblomov - if this chapter came first, I not sure it would have worked. At this point though is there any hope for him? Guess we will see.
I like listening to your reviews, it helps more than just reading for my old brain.
I see a few parallels in this chapter to Ray Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine. The mysterious and forbidding gully in that story is called “the ravine.” There is also the same feeling of a need to keep everything always the same and to keep a protective bubble around the village because there is a shadowy something “out there” that threatens to come in and change things. And, of course, we don’t want that!
I love it when readers make connections to other books and stories like this! Interesting that Goncharov also wrote a novel called The Ravine (or the Precipice). I'll need to look up that Bradbury story. One of my enduring memories of English class was reading one of Bradbury's short stories about a travel agency that took tourists back to the dinosaur age and someone stepped on a butterfly. I forget what it was called, but it was the first time I'd ever come across the butterfly effect.
What a chapter. At first it felt like I was reading another author and that it was nothing to do with Oblomov but of course we got into their life.
Was that how the wealthy lived at that time or is it just them? We now understand Oblomov - if this chapter came first, I not sure it would have worked. At this point though is there any hope for him? Guess we will see.
I like listening to your reviews, it helps more than just reading for my old brain.
I see a few parallels in this chapter to Ray Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine. The mysterious and forbidding gully in that story is called “the ravine.” There is also the same feeling of a need to keep everything always the same and to keep a protective bubble around the village because there is a shadowy something “out there” that threatens to come in and change things. And, of course, we don’t want that!
I love it when readers make connections to other books and stories like this! Interesting that Goncharov also wrote a novel called The Ravine (or the Precipice). I'll need to look up that Bradbury story. One of my enduring memories of English class was reading one of Bradbury's short stories about a travel agency that took tourists back to the dinosaur age and someone stepped on a butterfly. I forget what it was called, but it was the first time I'd ever come across the butterfly effect.