Onegin Vs Goncharov
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To the school of Russian authors following Aleksandr Pushkin, Eugene Onegin was singularly the most influential hero in 19th century Russian literature. With his lyric novel, Eugene Onegin, Pushkin expanded the scope of poetic description to include the psychological description of his hero. But it was not later Russian poets that would borrow heavily from his ideas, it was the novelists that followed him that relied most heavily on his writing. They used his hero, Eugene Onegin, as a sort of model for their own heroes, attempting to bisect a differing aspect of Onegin's person. As a result, many of the novelists' heroes were essentially Onegin reworked. Ivan Goncharov's Oblomov, from his book Oblomov and later, its movie rendition, was no exception to this influence; Oblomov, like his predecessor, was the superfluous man. The similarities between Onegin an Oblomov are not, at first, easily accessible to the reader. This is mainly because these similarities are not very superficial or obvious; they are fundamental traits both possess. First, both are bored with their world and find little enjoyment in all that surrounds them. Onegin, himself, professes this when conversing with his one friend, Lensky...