The title character is hurt financially by the scheming of his so-called friend who rents him an apartment at an exorbitant price, and then convinces the landlady to keep him there by having an affair with him.
The title character is hurt financially by the scheming of his so-called friend who rents him an apartment at an exorbitant price, and then convinces the landlady to keep him there by having an affair with him. He agrees to Tarantyev's plan because his life has so deteriorated that he can't even control his valet Zahar. After his true love Olga leaves him she meets his best friend, whose energy and active way of life win her over. They get married and she adopts the Stolz name, while the novel's central figure passes away in the same place where he spent most of his life: his bed. FTP, identify this 1858 novel, whose title character became a synonym for extreme aristocratic apathy, the most famous work of Ivan Goncharov.
The title character is hurt financially by the scheming of his so-called friend who rents him an apartment at an exorbitant price, and then convinces the landlady to keep him there by having an affair with him.
{Oblomov}