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The Nose: A Stylistic and Critical Companion to Nikolai Gogol’s Story

By Ksana Blank (editor)

Book information

Publisher
Academic Studies Press
Year
2021
ISBN
1644695197, 9781644695197
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11418294 bytes)
Series
(Companions to Russian Literature)
Edition
1
Pages
236\236
Topic
Literature\\Fiction
Time added
2021-08-20 09:54:14
Literary CriticismLiterary TheoryNovel CriticismRussian literature

Description

This literary guide leads students with advanced knowledge of Russian as well as experienced scholars through the text of Nikolai Gogol’s absurdist masterpiece “The Nose.” Part I focuses on numerous instances of the writer’s wordplay, which is meant to surprise and delight the reader, but which often is lost in English translations. It traces Gogol’s descriptions of everyday life in St. Petersburg, familiar to the writer’s contemporaries and fellow citizens but hidden from the modern Western reader. Part II presents an overview of major critical interpretations of the story in Gogol scholarship from the time of its publication to the present, as well as its connections to the works of Shostakovich, Kafka, Dalí, and Kharms.

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