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La malattia malvagia
Повесть, впервые опубликованная в 1838 году.
85 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1987
About the author
Ivan Goncharov
286 books445 followersRussian novelist Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov (/ˈɡɒntʃəˌrɔːf, -ˌrɒf/; Russian: Ива́н Алекса́ндрович Гончаро́в), best known for his novels
A Common Story
(1847),
Oblomov
(1859), and
The Precipice
(1869). He also served in many official capacities, including the position of censor.
Goncharov was born into the family of a wealthy merchant, elevated as a reward for military service of his grandfather to gentry status. A boarding school, then the Moscow college of commerce, and finally Moscow State University educated him. After graduating, he served for a short time in the office of the governor of Simbirsk before moving to Saint Petersburg, where he worked as government translator and private tutor, while publishing poetry and fiction in private almanacs. People published A Common Story , first novel of Goncharov, in Sovremennik in 1847.
Goncharov's second and best-known novel Oblomov was published in 1859 in Otechestvennye zapiski. His third and final novel The Precipice was published in Vestnik Evropy in 1869. He also worked as a literary and theatre critic. Towards the end of his life Goncharov wrote a memoir called An Uncommon Story, in which he accused his literary rivals, first and foremost Ivan Turgenev, of having plagiarized his works and prevented him from achieving European fame. The memoir was published in 1924. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, among others, considered Goncharov an author of high stature. Anton Chekhov is quoted as stating that Goncharov was "...ten heads above me in talent."
Goncharov was born into the family of a wealthy merchant, elevated as a reward for military service of his grandfather to gentry status. A boarding school, then the Moscow college of commerce, and finally Moscow State University educated him. After graduating, he served for a short time in the office of the governor of Simbirsk before moving to Saint Petersburg, where he worked as government translator and private tutor, while publishing poetry and fiction in private almanacs. People published A Common Story , first novel of Goncharov, in Sovremennik in 1847.
Goncharov's second and best-known novel Oblomov was published in 1859 in Otechestvennye zapiski. His third and final novel The Precipice was published in Vestnik Evropy in 1869. He also worked as a literary and theatre critic. Towards the end of his life Goncharov wrote a memoir called An Uncommon Story, in which he accused his literary rivals, first and foremost Ivan Turgenev, of having plagiarized his works and prevented him from achieving European fame. The memoir was published in 1924. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, among others, considered Goncharov an author of high stature. Anton Chekhov is quoted as stating that Goncharov was "...ten heads above me in talent."
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August 9, 2023
L'irrefrenabile entusiasmo, quello che vivifica, fa vibrare le pupille, trascina fuori da sé sublimando la noia cagionata dai malanni della vita e dai limiti del corpo. La novità che si trasmette per contagio, in posti inaspettati, sottile idea in apparenza innoqua, che si fa strada, da un orecchio ad un altro, come una fiammella, che si estende e divampa in un incendio inghiottendo nel vuoto intere famiglie, amici, fino ad intere città. Per evitare il contagio, il testimone impotente e inerme, si polarizza nella posizione diametralmente opposta, si tura le orecchie col sonno, si immobilizza, segue il divenire solo per farsi portavoce del pericolo, si fa Cassandra inascoltata, per necessità. Ecologismo sfrenato, ritorno alla natura con sguardo fanciullesco, desiderio smodato di emozioni, avventura, queste le tematiche, ma anche qualunque passione ci riguardi da vicino, perché un classico é traversale e porta con sé la matrice di un significato universale.
E attenzione, perché forse anche noi siamo stati o saremo contagiati dalla MALATTIA MALVAGIA.
Affiora la contrapposizione tra sventatezza e immobilismo, dissoluzione e autoconservazione. Con un piccolo ma preziono anticipo di ció che poi verrà definito oblomovismo.
E attenzione, perché forse anche noi siamo stati o saremo contagiati dalla MALATTIA MALVAGIA.
Affiora la contrapposizione tra sventatezza e immobilismo, dissoluzione e autoconservazione. Con un piccolo ma preziono anticipo di ció che poi verrà definito oblomovismo.
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