Nikolai Gogol - Couverture souple

Nabokov, Vladimir

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0811201201 ISBN 13 : 9780811201209

Editeur : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1961

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was born in St Petersburg. He wrote his first literary works in Russian, but rose to international prominence as a masterly prose stylist for the novels he composed in English, most famously, Lolita. Between 1923 and 1940 he published novels, short stories, plays, poems and translations in the Russian language and established himself as one of the most outstanding Russian émigré writers.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 1961
• ISBN 10: 0811201201
• ISBN 13: 9780811201209
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 172