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Obryv #2

Yalıyar Cilt 2

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528 pages, Paperback

Published October 29, 2024

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Ivan Goncharov

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Russian 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."

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February 7, 2026
“Basit, sıradan bir hayat çıplak gerçekliğiyle özünde nasıl da uçsuz bucaksız, nasıl da trajik olabiliyor ve insanlar bu hengameden nasıl da sapasağlam çıkabiliyorlar!”
Oblomov ile özdeşleşmiş bir yazar Gonçarov. Çoğu zaman kitabın ismin önüne geçmiş olduğunu da fark ediyoruz. Onun için başka bir romanını okumak tuhaf gelebilir ama Yalıyar’ı aslında tema olarak biraz dönemi yansıtan son kitabı gibi düşünebiliriz. İki cilt olarak yayımlanmış bu romanı en çok karakter çeşitliliği ile sevdim sanırım. Hem kadın karakterler hem de erkek karakterler dönemin rus toplumsal ve siyasi dönemini yansıtan başlıca figürler. Psikolojik tahlilleri, uzun uzun diyalogları ile içine kapılıp gidiyorsunuz. Öte yandan bir klasik eserde aradığınız ne varsa –aşk, drama ve onun getirdiği içsel monologlar- bulabilirsiniz. Ben severek okudum ama bazıları uzun olduğu içi sıkılabilir. Klasik eserlerde bazen böyle bir sorun olabiliyor. Hikaye çok fazla öngörülebilir olduğunda özellikle kopabiliyor insan.
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