# Ivan Goncharov — What Is Art? character guide

> Ivan Goncharov in What Is Art? by Leo Tolstoy.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Gontchareff

**First appearance:** 0003-i

## Who they are

Russian novelist cited in passing.

## In the story

### [IX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/what_is_art_se/chapters/ix)

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 wealthy.

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