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...OBLOMOV (485 pp.)-Ivan Goncharov-Penguin (paperback...
Petersburg, needled Russia with a masterly seriocomic study of a chronic lazybones whom he called Oblomov. The book was largely ignored by readers rushing to buy the latest novel-A Nest of Gentlefolk-by Turgenev. Literate Russians eventually recognized Goncharov's genius, but after nearly a century, his major work is still little known in the West. Probably no finer introduction exists than the supple, perceptive new English translation (the first in 25 years) by David Magar-shack, himself the author of two good biographies of Chekhov and Turgenev...
Some of the dialogue is amusing. Especially amusing are the lines spoken by Kurt Kaszuar, as the drinking uncle, and Edgar Steldi as Grandpere. Both are splendid actors, particularly Mr. Kaszuar, who made the evening for me with his Oblomov-like characterization. The French actor, Clande Dauphin, plays Papa with warmth...
...Pravda ("Truth"), in which Joseph Stalin's lightest whims and heaviest commands, usually unsigned, often appear first. Last week that prominent Old Bolshevik, the editor of the Soviet Government newsorgan Izvestia ("News"), famed Nicolai Ivanovich Bukharin, expressed the editorial opinion that the Russian people were "a nation of Oblomovs" (i. e., lazy, good-for-nothing dreamers like Oblomov, principal character in the famed Goncharov novel) prior to their glorious awakening by the Revolution of 1917. Crack!-Pravda came out with an editorial flaying Old Bolshevik Bukharin. Promptly Editor Bukharin abjectly crawled, withdrew editorially everything he had said, apologized. Even...
...Paris"; Arthur Elson, "The Book of Musical Knowledge"; St. John G. Ervine, "Eight O'clock"; A. D. Ficke, "The Man on the Hilltop"; Carl R. Fish, "American Diplomacy"; Richard Le Gallienne, "Vanishing Roads"; John Galsworthy, "The Freelands"; N. V. Gogol, "Dead Souls"; Maxim Gorky, "My Childhood"; Ivan Goucharov, "Oblomov"; C. E. Gouldsbury, "Tiger Slayer by Order"; Harvard Club of Boston, "Year-Book, 1915-16"; Harvard Club of New York City, "Constitution, By-Laws, etc."; Lafcadio Hearn, "Interpretations of Literature," and "Japanese Lyrics"; Edwin B. Holt, "The Feudian Wish"; James Hunecker, "Ivory Apes and Peacocks"; S. C. Johnson, "Chats on Military...