"The Nose" : A Stylistic and Critical Companion to Nikolai Gogol's Story
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This literary guide leads students with advanced knowledge of Russian as well as experienced scholars through the text of Nikolai Gogol’s absurdist masterpiece “The Nose.” Part I focuses on numerous instances of the writer’s wordplay, which is meant to surprise and delight the reader, but which often is lost in English translations. It traces Gogol’s descriptions of everyday life in St. Petersburg, familiar to the writer’s contemporaries and fellow citizens but hidden from the modern Western reader. Part II presents an overview of major critical interpretations of the story in Gogol scholarship from the time of its publication to the present, as well as its connections to the works of Shostakovich, Kafka, Dalí, and Kharms.
“This deeply informed commentary on the text of ‘The Nose’ explains religious and cultural material and reveals thematic threads concealed in the Russian. Ksana Blank’s compendium makes meaningful detail accessible and deploys it in a variety of possible interpretations. The commentary and essays together provide English speakers access to the verbal riches of the original that allows them to achieve their own closely-argued reading of Gogol’s gem.”
—Priscilla Meyer, Professor of Russian Language and Literature, Emerita, Wesleyan University
“An admirably illuminating, multifaceted, and thorough analysis of Gogol’s classic story, as well as a consistent pleasure to read—in short, a model of its kind.”
—Donald Fanger, Harry Levin Professor of Literature, Emeritus, Harvard University
“Ksana Blank’s commentary to ‘The Nose’ will be useful not only to advanced undergraduates and graduate students, but also to scholars, particularly to those who do not speak Russian natively. She has an admirable ability to reconstruct the context of Gogol’s St. Petersburg, both in the everyday life of the capital and in the idioms that Gogol consciously fractures and rearranges.”
—Michael Wachtel, Princeton University
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