Nikolai Gogol by Vladimir Nabokov - ISBN: 9781846143304
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Unraveling Russia’s oddest genius: Gogol, a master of the irrational.

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    160 pages

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    3 February 2011

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Summary

Nikolai Gogol was one of the great geniuses of nineteenth century Russian literature, with a command of the irrational unmatched by any writer before or since. His strange tales, though often read as forceful demands for social change, were displays of the fantasies of the human spirit. In this ideal marriage of subject and critic, Nabokov analyses his endlessly inventive compatriot, focusing on the masterpieces Dead Souls, The Overcoat, and The Government Inspector

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781846143304
ISBN-10:1846143306
Author:Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:160
Release Date:3 February 2011
Weight:146g
Dimensions:197mm x 129mm x 12mm
Series:Penguin Modern Classics
About The Author

Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), born in St Petersburg, exiled in Cambridge, Berlin, and Paris, became the greatest Russian writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Fleeing to the US with his family in 1940, he then became the greatest writer in English of the second half of the century, and even ‘God’s own novelist’ (William Deresiewicz). He lived in Europe from 1959 onwards, and died in Montreux, Switzerland. All his major works - novels, stories, an autobiography, poems, plays, lectures, essays and reviews - are published in Penguin Modern Classics.

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