Dobrolyubov, Nikolay Aleksandrovich
- Dobrolyubov, Nikolay Aleksandrovich
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▪ Russian literary critic
born Jan. 24 [Feb. 5, New Style], 1836, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
died Nov. 17 [Nov. 29], 1861, St. Petersburg
radical Russian utilitarian critic who rejected traditional and Romantic literature.
Dobrolyubov, the son of a priest, was educated at a seminary and a pedagogical institute. Early in his life he rejected traditionalism and found his ideal in progress as represented by Western science. In 1856 Dobrolyubov began contributing to
Sovremennik (“The Contemporary”), an influential liberal periodical, and
from 1857 until his death he was chief critic for that journal. He was perhaps the most influential critic after Vissarion Belinsky among the radical intelligentsia; his main concern was the criticism of life rather than of literature. He is perhaps best known for his essay “What is Oblomovism” (1859–60). The essay deals with the phenomenon represented by the character Oblomov in Ivan Goncharov's novel of that name. It established the term Oblomovism as a name for the superfluous man of Russian life and literature.
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