These are the last words of the monologue, which Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, slightly awake, utters in front of his friend, who has decided to praise the work that denounces the vices of modernity.
“These are the last words of the monologue, which Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, slightly awake, utters in front of his friend, who has decided to praise the work that denounces the vices of modernity. He says this: “You want to write with one head! Do you think that a thought does not need a heart? No, it is fertilized by love. Stretch out your hand to a fallen man to raise him up… Love him, remember yourself in him and treat him as if you were yourself… They portray a thief, a fallen woman… but they forget or don’t know how to portray a person. I re-read Oblomov six years ago. At that time, thrash programs were gaining popularity on NTV, which later became the sad hallmark of the channel. I was especially annoyed in them that they treat people like masks in a medieval comedy — this is an alcoholic, this is a fallen woman, this is a businessman, and this is a bandit. Flat, cardboard, some kind of inhuman people. When I read Ilya Ilyich’s monologue, it was as if I was struck by an electric shock — my journalistic credo is so precisely formulated in it. I even sent these words to the editor-in-chief of «Maximum Program», but he laughed it off, saying that «humanity» in the broadcast grid is after 12 at night with a rating of 0,1%, and in prime time people need action. Well, he’s probably right about something, which is why I don’t work for NTV now.”
* Ivan Goncharov (1812-1891) — Russian writer, quote from the novel «Oblomov» (AST, 2010).