Goncharov, Ivan Aleksandrovich
Goncharov, Ivan Aleksandrovich ( 1812 – 91 ),Russian prose writer. From 1834 to 1867 he worked in the Russian bureaucracy, serving from 1855 as an official censor. In 1852 – 4 he journeyed round the world as secretary to an admiral. The book he wrote about his travels, The Frigate Pallas, contains impressions of England and of English colonialism. Goncharov's most important works are the novels An Ordinary Story ( 1847 ; trans. C. Garnett , 1894 ), The Ravine ( 1869 ; trans. 1915 ), and his masterpiece Oblomov ( 1859 ; trans. 1915 ), where in the portrait of a man who disdains to get out of bed he created a literary archetype admired the world over.
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