Francine du Plessix Gray is the author of numerous books of fiction and nonfiction, including Simone Weil, At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life, Rage and Fire, Lovers and Tyrants, and Soviet Women. Her new novel is The Queen's Lover.
One of her five favorite fictional portraits of idleness and lassitude, as told to the Wall Street Journal:Oblomov
by Ivan Goncharov (1859)
Ilya Illyich
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