April 22, 2008: Goncharov on overdoing it - 0 Comments

"'. . . and everything , everything is so remarkably, so thrillingly true to life. . . . I've heard extracts from it - the author is a great man! He reminds one of Dante and Shakespeare . . . '

' Good Lord!' cried Oblomov in surprise, sitting up. 'Going a bit too far, aren't you?'

Penkin suddenly fell silent, realizing that he really had gone too far."

- Goncharov, Oblomov, 1859.