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We see lifeour own world or fantastic realities that function as elaborate metaphors for our ownthrough anothers eyes. Nikolai gogol ebook by vladimir nabokov 9780811227247. Dead souls, nikolai gogol, bernard guilbert guerney, yale university press. The overcoat by nikolai gogol download free kindle epub. Vladimir nabokov studied french and russian literature at trinity college.
In this brilliant study, vladimir nabokov shows us that gogols comedy was not dickensian, but biting and salty, textured throughout by a use of the irrational not duplicated by any other writer. Written in 1944, this little book about the 19thcentury russian writer brims with inaccuracies, gaping lacunae and strong opinions. Vladimir nabokov zu ehren, 1977 the nabokovwilson letters. Nabokovs own translation of the book into russian was published by phaedra publishers in new york in 1967. Lepidopteral 2000 nabokovs butterflies, collected works on butterflies. The biographer proceeds to establish the relationship between gogol and his novels, especially with regard to noseconsciousness, a peculiar feature of russian life and letters, which finds its apotheosis in gogols own life and prose.
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