"The Nose" : : A Stylistic and Critical Companion to Nikolai Gogol’s Story / / ed. by Ksana Blank.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• HerausgeberIn: Blank, Ksana,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Companions to Russian Literature
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (238 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Note on Translation and Transliteration --; Introduction --; Part One. How “The Nose” Is Made --; Part Two. Interpretations --; Instead of a Conclusion --; Selected Bibliography --; Index --; Acknowledgements
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781644695210; 9783110743210; 9783110743357; 9783110754001; 9783110753776; 9783110754124; 9783110753899
• DOI: 10.1515/9781644695210?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Ksana Blank.

This literary guide leads students with advanced knowledge of Russian as well as experienced scholars through the text of Nikolai Gogol’s absurdist masterpiece “The Nose.” Part I focuses on numerous instances of the writer’s wordplay, which is meant to surprise and delight the reader, but which often is lost in English translations. It traces Gogol’s descriptions of everyday life in St. Petersburg, familiar to the writer’s contemporaries and fellow citizens but hidden from the modern Western reader. Part II presents an overview of major critical interpretations of the story in Gogol scholarship from the time of its publication to the present, as well as its connections to the works of Shostakovich, Kafka, Dalí, and Kharms.