An anti-Tostoyan character: Oblamov

Last night started reading Ivan Goncharov's Oblomov, one of the lesser-known classic Russian 19th-century novels; first impression is that it's very much the anti-Dostoyevsky and anti-Tolstoy - I think little in time before them and possibly something against which they reacted? His title character is lazy, passive, and unengaged, spends most of his day lounging about, "earns" his living by running a small estate that no doubt he's inherited, and running it badly, living in genteel squalor (an ample apartment in a large building; three rooms but only one in use; dust covering everything and bits of food and dirty plates lying around, friends who visit are afraid to sit down for fear of ruining their clothes - in other words, like many college dorm rooms or like the first apartments of many guys), running up debts and taxes, and taking out his frustrations on his elderly, hapless servant (D. characters do this as well). Direct contrast to the social and intellectually engaged characters of Tolstoy and to the dramatically oppositional characters of Dostoyevsky. He is not by any means an "underground man" - he's pathetically conventional - nor a disaffected outsider like Raskolnikov or the characters in Devils; he doesn't appear to have a thought in his head except for himself and his comfort. An intriguing start to the novel, at least as the sketch of an affectless protagonist (like a Russian Man Without Qualities) - but will he change, evolve, or face any sort of crisis over the course of the novel? One would think so - I'm only about 30 pp into a 400-page novel; the extent to which he does so will mark its success.