Nikolai Gogol
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0811201201
ISBN-13
9780811201209
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Imprint
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 17th, 1961
Print length
172 Pages
Weight
202 grams
Dimensions
20.40 x 13.20 x 1.60 cms
Product Classification:
Biography: literaryBiography: writers
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Nikolai Gogol was the most idiosyncratic of the great Russian novelists of the 19th century and lived a tragically short life which was as chaotic as the lives of the characters he created.
This biography begins with Gogol's death and ends with his birth, an inverted structure typical of both Gogol and Nabokov. The biographer proceeds to establish the relationship between Gogol and his novels, especially with regard to "nose-consciousness", a peculiar feature of Russian life and letters, which finds its apotheosis in Gogol's own life and prose. There are more expressions and proverbs concerning the nose in Russian than in any other language in the world. Nabokov's style in this biography is comic, but as always leads to serious issues—in this case, an appreciation of the distinctive "sense of the physical" inherent in Gogol's work. Nabokov describes how Gogol's life and literature mingled, and explains the structure and style of Gogol's prose in terms of the novelist's life.
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