Nikolai Gogol

Name: Nikolai Gogol
Brand: New Directions Publishing Corporation
SKU: 9780811201209
Price: 2350 KES
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ISBN: 9780811201209

by Vladimir Nabokov

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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: literary Biography: 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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