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Title	:	Nikolai Gogol
Author	:	Vladimir Nabokov
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 256 pages
Published	:	February 3rd 2011 by Penguin Classics (first published 1944)
Categories	:	Biography. Nonfiction. Cultural. Russia. Criticism. Literary Criticism. Literature. Russian Literature

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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.

Misunderstood by his contemporaries, mishandled by theatre directors and ending his life mistreated by doctors - with medicinal leeches hanging from his exceptional nose - it took Nabokov to give Gogol, 'the oddest Russian in Russia', the critical biography he and his singular, brilliant work deserve.

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Original Title:	Nikokai Gogol
ISBN:	1846143306 (ISBN13: 9781846143304)
Edition Language:	English

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Delightful.

Nabokov likes to be clever. Not a teacher, not smartassy, but just you're mistaken and I know the right answer.He mostly says what Gogols works aren't and keeps stressing that the "creative reader" will know. You needn't read any Gogol cause N. man quotes almost all of him, adding how this or that translation is awful and how poetic Gogol's some work is. I came out of this experience smarter than I was before, alright. I'm just sad that such a great writer wrote about an even greater writer like

Really quite fun, but with hindsight more interesting maybe about what it doesn't say, than what it does. This is Gogol imagined as though he was a Nabokov character, so no discussion of Gogol as a fellow craftsman nor does Nabokov allow any light to be cast on his own writing, I don't think he wrote on other Russian authors so one suspects that a connection existed or some bond of the surreal linked them, although Nabokov obviously isn't going to make anything plain - the reader has to solve

This is almost more for fans of Nabokov than Gogol (though it would be odd to like one and not the other). Not that it doesn't offer lots of fascinating analysis of Gogol's art (with some biography thrown in for good measure), but most of my enjoyment came from N's writing, which is as masterly as ever. There are lots of charming Nabokovisms, like an analogy between bad translation and a particularly gruesome form of execution, a detailed discussion of the Russian word "poshlust" and an aside

it is as useless to look in Dead Souls for an authentic Russian background as it would be to try and form a conception of Denmark on the basis of that little affair in cloudy Elsinore.

Loving Gogol helps. I'm not sure what the fun would be without having read at least two of the three discussed works. It's the perfect length, and does a good job explaining (or at least exposing) Gogol's magic (though I'm not sure any modern reader who had never heard of Gogol would fall for the "realism" or "satire" angle without being prepped on it beforehand, and let's be honest, no one is anymore) without trying too hard to grip it. It was my first exposure to Nabokov, and he comes off as a

sorry NabokovGOGOL WAS GAy