The Nose: A Stylistic and Critical Companion to Nikolai Gogol's Story (Companions to Russian Literature) (Paperback)

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By Ksana Blank (Editor)
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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, Dal , and Kharms.

About the Author

Ksana Blank is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University. She is the author of Dostoevsky's Dialectics and the Problem of Sin (Northwestern University, 2010) and Spaces of Creativity: Essays on Russian Literature and the Arts (Academic Studies Press, 2016).


Product Details
ISBN: 9781644695203
ISBN-10: 1644695200
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Publication Date: April 20th, 2021
Pages: 238
Language: English
Series: Companions to Russian Literature
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