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Ivan Goncharov

Russian novelist cited in passing.

minor

Also known as Gontchareff

First appearance: i

Ivan Goncharov shows up with force in IX. The page is where that presence becomes real.

Cited as an aesthetician who believed peasant life was exhausted as subject-matter after Turgenev's works, while finding endless variety in the love affairs and discontent of the…
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