Ivan Goncharov (1812-1891) Russian writer, is best-known for his humorous novel OBLOMOV (1859), a leading work in Russian Realism. Milton Ehre is Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago. Among his publications are Oblomov and His Creator: The Life and Art of Ivan Goncharov, Isaac Babel, translations of the plays of Gogol and Chekhov and poems by Anna Akhmatova.
“Oblomov is a truly great work, the likes of which one has not
seen for a long, long time. I am in rapture
over Oblomov and keep rereading it.” ―Leo Tolstoy
“[Goncharov is] ten heads above me in talent.” ―Anton Chekhov
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