Hobbledehoy

BLOOM: _ (Hobbledehoy, warmgloved, mammamufflered, starred with spent snowballs, struggles to rise) _ Again!

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

The general outline of "The Hobbledehoy" is as follows: Mrs. Prostakóff

A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889

How did the characters in his "The Hobbledehoy" compare with those in the plays of Katherine II.?

A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889

"The Hobbledehoy" was wholly unlike anything which had been seen hitherto in Russian literature.

A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889

"The Brigadier" and "The Hobbledehoy" is so great that they must be read in the order of their production if the full value of the impression created by the earlier play is to be appreciated.

A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889

(Simpleton), a managing woman, of ungovernable temper, has an only child, Mitrofán (the Hobbledehoy), aged sixteen.

A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889

When asked about geography, the Hobbledehoy declares that he does not know what is meant, and his mother prompts him with "'Eography," after asking Právdin what he said.

A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889

Totally different is "The Hobbledehoy" ( "Nédorosl," 1782), which is even more celebrated, and was written towards the close of a long career in the service, filled with varied and trying experiences -- part of which arose from the difficulties of the author's own noble character in contact with a different type of men and from his attacks on abuses of all sorts -- after a profound study of life in the middle and higher classes of Russian court and diplomatic circles.

A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889

Mrs. Simpleton and the Hobbledehoy have retired), the other teachers attack him with slate and book.

A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889