What is the Oblomov temperament?

… Born into a priest's family in Nizhny Novgorod (now Gorky), while studying at the St. Petersburg Higher Normal School, he became acquainted with Chernyshevsky and participated in the editing of the anti-government magazine "Contemporaries". He was in charge of the literary criticism column and wrote such essays as "The Kingdom of Darkness" (1856), "What is the Oblomov Temperament?" (1859), and "The Crushed People" (1861), and played an active role as a revolutionary leader on the eve of the emancipation of the serfs. He was also involved in the organization of the secret society "Land and Freedom" (1st), and plotted to overthrow autocracy and abolish serfdom through a peasant uprising. …

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…ニジニ･ノブゴロド(現，ゴーリキー)の司祭の家庭に生まれ，ペテルブルグ高等師範学校に在学中，チェルヌイシェフスキーの知遇を得て反政府主義的な雑誌《現代人》の編集に参加。文芸批評の欄を担当し，《闇の王国》(1856)，《オブローモフ気質とは何か》(1859)，《打ちのめされた人々》(1861)等の論文を書き，農奴解放前夜の革命派の指導者として活躍した。秘密結社〈土地と自由〉(第1次)の組織にも関与し，農民蜂起による専制政治の打倒と農奴制の廃棄とを画策した。…

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