Nikolai Gogol
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Nikolai Gogol
（A New Directions paperbook, 78）
New Directions, 1961, c1944
Corrected ed.
- : pbk
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Nikolai Gogol / by Vladimir Nabokov
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Nikolai Gogol / by Vladimir Nabokov
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"First published in 1959 as New Directions Paperbook No. 78; corrected edition, 1961" -- T.p. verso
"Second printing. Corrected edition" -- back cover
Seventh printing is 21 cm
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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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