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

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

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Series: Companions to Russian Literature

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1644695200
ISBN13: 9781644695203
Publisher: Academic Studies Pr
Published: Apr 20 2021
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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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