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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821678103321

Autore

Blank Ksana

Titolo

The nose : a stylistic and critical companion to Nikolai Gogol's story / / Ksana Blank

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brookline, MA : , : Academic Studies Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

1-64469-522-7

1-64469-521-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 pages)

Collana

Companions to Russian literature

Disciplina

891.733

Soggetti

Aesthetics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Introduction -- Part One. How “The Nose” Is Made -- Part Two. Interpretations -- Instead of a Conclusion -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgements

Sommario/riassunto

This guide focuses on Gogol’s language in "The Nose" and his playful twisting of the many Russian idioms that are usually lost in English translations of the story. It traces Gogol’s descriptions of St. Petersburg everyday life, familiar to the writer’s contemporaries but hidden from the modern Western reader. It also presents major critical interpretations of the story and its connections to the works of Shostakovich, Kafka, Dalí, and Kharms.