N. V. Gogol: The Nose

Informationen zum Autor Ruth Sobel is Senior Lecturer in the Defence School of Languages, Beaconsfield, UK. Klappentext Gogol's most remarkable exercise in the genre of the absurd. Vorwort Gogol's remarkable exercise in the genre of the absurd, here presented in the Russian with English introduction, notes on the text and vocabulary. Zusammenfassung Gogol was just 24 when he started to write one of his most brilliant masterpieces, The Nose . He completed it in 1835, but the editors of the Moscow Observer refused to publish it, describing it as ‘filthy’. The Nose thus appeared in Pushkin’s journal, The Contemporary, in 1836. It is Gogol’s most remarkable achievement in the genre of the absurd and indeed is considered seminal for the development of that genre in the twentieth century. It is no doubt the measure of Gogol’s achievement that the bizarre adventures of the Nose in the guise of a civil servant still have the power to baffle today’s critics.The Russian text is presented here with English introduction, notes on the text and vocabulary. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on the Text Introduction Bibliography HOC Notes Note on the Table of Ranks Vocabulary

List of contents

Notes on the Text
Introduction
Bibliography
HOC
Notes
Note on the Table of Ranks
Vocabulary

About the author

Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) won fame as a short story writer, and in 1836, his satirical comedy The Government Inspector created such a furore that Gogol left Russia to settle in Rome, in self-imposed exile. Religious mania in his later years contributed to his early death in Moscow.

Product details

• Authors: Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Gogol Nikolai Vasilievich
• Assisted by: R. Sobel (Editor), Ruth Sobel (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1998
• EAN: 9781853994074
• ISBN: 978-1-85399-407-4
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 215 mm x 4 mm
• Series: Russian texts
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary essays, Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: literary and general