Oblomov(奥勃洛莫夫)
〔俄〕Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov
Part 1 Chapter 1
ONE morning, in a flat in one of the great buildings in
Gorokhovaia Street, the population of which was sufficient to
constitute that of a provincial town, there was lying in bed a
gentleman named Ilya Ilyitch Oblomov. He was a fellow of a little
over thirty, of medium height, and of pleasant exterior.
Unfortunately, in his dark-grey eyes there was an absence of any
definite idea, and in his other features a total lack of
concentration. Suddenly a thought would wander across his face with
the freedom of a bird, flutter for a moment in his eyes, settle on
his half-opened lips, and remain momentarily lurking in the lines
of his forehead. Then it would disappear, and once more his face
would glow with a radiant insouciance which extended even to his
attitude and the folds o…