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The Precipice by Ivan Goncharov, Fiction, Classics (Paperback)
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The Precipice by Ivan Goncharov, Fiction, Classics (Paperback)
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Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (1812-1891) was one of the leading
members of the great circle of Russian writers who, in the middle
of the nineteenth century, gathered around the SOVREMMENIK
(Contemporary) under Nekrasov's editorship -- a circle including
Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Byelinsky, and Herzen. He had not
the marked genius of the first three of these; but that he is so
much less known to the western reader is perhaps also due to the
fact that there was nothing sensational either in his life or his
literary method. His strength was in the steady delineation of
character, conscious of, but not deeply disturbed by, the problems
which were obsessing and distracting smaller and greater minds.
Goncharov had passed many years in Governmental service and had, in
fact, reached the age of thirty-five when his first work, A Common
Story, was published. The Frigate Pallada, which followed, is a
lengthy descriptive account of an official expedition to Japan and
Siberia in which Goncharov took part. essay, Better Late Than
Never, in which he attempted to explain that the purpose of his
three novels was to present the eternal struggle between East and
West -- the lethargy of the Russian and the ferment of foreign
influences. Thus he ranged himself more closely with the great
figures among his contemporaries. Two other volumes consist of
critical study and reminiscence.
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