Nikolai Gogol

Name: Nikolai Gogol
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ISBN: 9780811201209

ISBN-10: 0811201201

ISBN-13: 9780811201209

Edition: 1961

Authors: Vladimir Nabokov

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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#xE2;#xAC;#x1D;in this case, an appreciation of the distinctive "sense of the physical" inherent in Gogol's work. Nabokov describes how Gogol's…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 1961
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date: 1/17/1961
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 172
Size: 0.52" wide x 0.80" long x 0.05" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English