Exploring Gogol
For the past 150 years, critics have referred to ''the Gogol problem'', by which they mean their inability to account for a life and work that are puzzling, often opaque, yet have proved consistently fascinating to generations of readers. This book proceeds on the assumption that Gogol''s life and work, in all their manifestations, form a whole; it identifies, in ways that have eluded critics to d...
For the past 150 years, critics have referred to ''the Gogol problem'', by which they mean their inability to account for a life and work that are puzzling, often opaque, yet have proved consistently fascinating to generations of readers. This book proceeds on the assumption that Gogol''s life and work, in all their manifestations, form a whole; it identifies, in ways that have eluded critics to d...
