Nikolai Gogol - Dead Souls: 'The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.' (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Trade Paper)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
234
Utgivningsdatum
2014-04-01
Förlag
Word to the Wise
Dimensioner
229 x 152 x 12 mm
Vikt
318 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781783943234

Nikolai Gogol - Dead Souls: 'The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.'

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av Nikolai Gogol
Häftad,  Engelska, 2014-04-01
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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was born on 31st March 1809 in present day Ukraine which was then the Russian Cossack village of Sorochyntsi. Nikolai's parents were relatively affluent; his mother's family were Polish landowners and his father, who wrote poetry in Ukrainian and Russian, was a descendant of Ukrainian Cossacks. Nikolai had a good education and started writing as a teenager whilst still at school although did consider becoming an actor due to his formidable talent at mimicry. On leaving school he went to St Petersburg but found it hard getting any work either in the civil service or as an actor. He self published a romantic poem but it was critically savaged to the extent that he swore never to write poetry again and also considered emigrating to the US. Fortunately, he persevered with his writing and produced a series of stories about his home in Ukraine in a colloquial and whimsical style that captured many literary admirers including the esteemed poet Pushkin. Nikolai was eventually able to abandon his work teaching and produced powerful books brilliantly and savagely satirising the inequities of the Russian system and its corrupt bureaucracy. His creative talents declined in later years and he became heavily influenced by a sadistic fanatical priest and died semi insane on 4th March 1852. He remains the father of Russian realism as evidenced here by his classic 'Dead Souls'
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