Sublime

Sergei Ivanovich, who knew like no one else how to add some Attic salt8 to the end of a most abstract and serious discussion

Pyotr Alexandrovich Miusov,

but before that I had occasion to know Armance, and Coralie,

I remember it was precisely he who marveled most of all when he got acquainted with the young man, who interested him greatly and with whom he used—not without inner pangs—to have occasional intellectual altercations.

de Turguêniev, Oblómov suscitou um rico debate, no qual se destacou o longo artigo de Dobroliúbov “O que é o oblomovismo” (1859).

Tatyana and Onegin, Anna and Vronsky, Ivan and Vera: at every step, the riddle of human behavior and the nature of love appeared bound up with Russian.