Goncharov

[ gon-chuh-rawf, -rof; Russian guhn-chyi-rawf ]

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noun

I·van A·le·xan·dro·vich [ih-, vahn, al-ig-, zan, -dr, uh, -vich, -, zahn, -, ahy, -v, uh, n, ee-, vahn, uh-lyi-, ksahn, -d, r, uh, -vyich], 1812–91, Russian novelist.

Goncharov

/ ˌɡʌntʃəˈrɔf /

GoncharovIvan Aleksandrovich18121891MRussianWRITING: novelist Ivan Aleksandrovich (ɪˈvan alɛksanˈdrɔvɪtʃ). 1812–91, Russian novelist: his best-known work is Oblomov (1859)

[Rushdie] cut to a passage that imagined the most indolent couple imaginable, Linda Evangelista and Goncharov's Ilya Oblomov.

Instead, he cut to a passage that imagined the most indolent couple imaginable, Linda Evangelista and Goncharov's Ilya Oblomov.

Goncharov is important from the English point of view through one book alone.

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