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In this wondrous and haunting story by a Cherokee writer, strong brash women and ill-fated stubborn men perform a complex dance of approach and avoidance in search of a middle ground between Native American tradition and the modern world.
In this work, written during World War I, Rolland contrasts the destructive hatred with the joy of life, humor, and solidarity. Kola is a kind of Burgundian Falstaff or Rabelais' Gargantua – rough but noble, earthly but deeply humane.
"Oblomov" follows the nobleman Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, a good-hearted man but paralyzed by laziness and passivity. His inability to act destroys his life, love, and future, pitting him against his active friend, Shtolac.