A description of the interior of the home begins a novel aboutwhat we know and brief content. “Oblomov” (1 chapter of the work, in particular) covers in detail one day in the life of landowner Ilya Ilyich Oblomov. Removable Petersburg four-room apartment. Three rooms of four - non-residential. Ilya Ilyich almost never leaves the room in which there are two sofas, a mahogany dressing table and several screens. He spends his day on one of the sofas: eating, receiving guests. After lunch, falls into a drowsy state. The servant Zakhar is a little less lazy than the master. In the apartment - dust, dirt, stains, but this does not hurt himself Oblomov.
A summary of the chapters alternately introducesus with unfolding events. In the second chapter, the reader meets the visitors - the landowner's friends: Alekseev, Volkov, Penkin, Sudbinsky. All of them are trying to captivate Ilya Ilyich with their plans. They want him to follow them. But their attempts are in vain. For Oblomov, any business or undertaking is initially uninteresting.
The fifth and sixth chapters take us back to twelveyears ago - to the attempts of a young Oblomov to make a career in St. Petersburg. Hereditary nobleman had the rank of collegiate secretary. However, he was afraid of the authorities to such an extent that, mistakenly sending a letter instead of Astrakhan to Arkhangelsk, he was frightened and retired from service. And now, more than ten years, he idle. From Oblomovka village, his patrimony, he receives less and less income - the clerk steals. But to reorganize its economy so that it became profitable, Oblomov lacks decisiveness.
Седьмая и восьмая главы рассказывают подробней о Oblomov's servant - Zakhare. This is the lackey of the old school. He is honest, devoted to his master, as was the custom of the yard in the last century. Taking care of the interests of Oblomov, Zakhar is not almond with the rogue Tarantiev. But at the same time, the laziness of the lord, as in a mirror, was reflected in him.
The ninth chapter of the novel “Oblomov” is special,key. After all, it is fragmentary showing the inferiority of raising a child by landlord parents. Sleep consists of three visions. First: a seven-year-old boy in Oblom estate of his parents. He is surrounded by petty tutelage, a cult of idleness is instilled in him. The second episode of the dream is the story of the nanny of fairy tales and epics. In their virtual world lives landowner Oblomov, the world of real affairs for him from childhood becomes boring. The third episode of sleep: study in elementary school. Teacher - Ivan Bogdanovich Stolz, German, clerk. Together with Ilyusha, the son of a teacher, Andrei, is studying. They are both active and dynamic. The study did not bring up an active man from the landowner’s son, since all the other people in his circle, except Stoltsev, lead a lazy, drowsy way of life.
The tenth, eleventh chapters are ironic about dirt in Oblomov's apartment. While he sleeps, servant Zakhar either gossips with his neighbors, or goes to drink beer. And, returning, finds the owner still asleep.
Пред читателем является Андрей Иванович Штольц.The summary of “Oblomov” by chapters (as, naturally, the novel itself) finally merges a dynamic and positive character. Andrei graduated from university, receiving a rank equivalent to that of a colonel, according to the table of ranks served as a lawyer. After retirement at the age of thirty, he engaged in commercial activities. He is commanded with especially important missions to Europe and is charged with developing projects.
The mutual feeling of Ilya Oblomov andOlga Ilyina. Olga is ready to get married. But when the time comes for decisive actions, Oblomov's love begins to counteract the inertness inherent in him, a note of fear creeps in his thoughts, "and what others will think." At the same time, Mihai Andreevich Tarantiev, “courting” the main character, will get his signature under a bondage contract to rent a new apartment on the Vyborg side. He also introduces Oblomov with his godfather Agafya Pshenitsyna. Agafya's brother, Ivan Matveyevich Mukhoyarov, in fact, "plays one game" with Tarantiev, wanting to fool himself on the property of the main character. Mukhoyarov convinces the guest of his sister Ilya Ilyich of the need to travel to his patrimony, the village of Oblomovka, in order to improve business. Oblomov falls ill.
Ill, Oblomov remains in the house AgafyaWheat that fell in love with him and caring for him from the heart. A woman in love even lays her jewels in order for Ilya Ilyich to feed and strengthen. By agreement, Ivan Matveevich Mukhoyarov and Mihai Andreevich Tarantiev decide on deception and forgery. Having frightened Oblomov with a compromise of his extramarital relations with Pshenitsyna, they take a receipt for him for 10,000 rubles. Agafya, blindly believing her brother, signs on her own the debt for the same 10,000 rubles.
Штольц в Париже встречается с Ильинской, caring for her. Mutual feeling flashes, lovers marry. Then Stolz returns to Russia, arrives at the Vyborg side to Oblomov and actively helps his friend. He temporarily rents Oblomovka, expels the burglar-thief of the Tainted one, a protege of Mukhoyarov. He learns about the receipt Oblomova. The next day, the general, informed by him, expels Mukhoyarova from service. Tarantiev rushes to run.
Oblomov's well-being improved, but the diseaseis progressing. Soon he was struck by apoplexy, and then death. On bringing up a son in common with Agafya, Andryusha, he asks Stolz before his very death. For Agafya, with the departure of Ilya Ilyich, life lost its meaning, as if "the heart was taken out of the chest." The faithful servant Zakhar preferred to beg, visiting the master's grave, but not returning to Oblomovka. In Agafi’s house, the wife of Muhoyarova is the boss. However, a glimmer of hope still illuminates the ending of the novel. Andryusha Oblomov, having acquired a second family, will undoubtedly receive a proper upbringing, and his life will become more meaningful.
