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Nicolai Gogol by Vladimir Nabokov (Paperback, 1990)

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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.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN-13
9780192826473
eBay Product ID (ePID)
91855557

Product Key Features

Book Title
Nicolai Gogol
Author
Vladimir Nabokov
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literature
Publication Year
1990
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
176 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
196mm
Item Width
129mm

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Vladimir Nabokov
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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