“To Suffer or Not to Suffer”: Oblomov’s Melancholy
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The literary device of Oblomov, eponymous novel of Goncharov and echoing A Man Asleep by Georges Perec, uses the rhythms of melancholy. Oblomov is a man who sleeps. The melancholy of Oblomov abrades any rhythm and drive circuit. Remaining out of reach and feeling nothing is Oblomov’s mode of being. He seeks to avoid being moved by the world around him or which comes through him. What is the desire to not be, to avoid any excess related to the sexual, to avoid using up any energy or any burning drive? In chains, Oblomov forms a unit with himself. He is the melancholic body.
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