Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Gogol was the most idiosyncratic of the great Russian novelists of the 19th century and lived a tragically short life which was as chaotic as the lives of the characters he created.\ This biography begins with Gogol's death and ends with his birth, an inverted structure typical of both Gogol and Nabokov. The biographer proceeds to establish the relationship between Gogol and his novels, especially with regard to\ "nose-consciousness", a peculiar feature of Russian life and letters,\...
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\ Library JournalNabokov's 1959 portrait of fellow Russian Gogol offered a different take from previous studies. He debunks the theory that Gogol was the Russian Dickens, claiming that his comedy was much more severe, and blames the misrepresentation of Gogol's work on bad translations and crude interpretations. Solid for the academics.\ \ —Michael Rogers\ \
