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Nikolai Gogol

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In 1942–1944, shortly after moving to the United States, Vladimir Nabokov wrote a book about Nikolai Gogol, turning the biography of the genius into a very personal and bold statement about the true and false in art. Nabokov’s famous passages explaining to the American reader the meaning of the word “vulgarity” and ridiculing the conventions of advertising were written for this book and have not lost their poignancy to this day. Despite various deviations from the requirements of the biographical genre, “Nikolai Gogol” covers the entire creative history of the writer, dwells on all the turns of his unusual life path and is supplied with a detailed “Chronology” and index. By permeating each page of this book with his own writing experience, Nabokov makes, in his own way, a conscientious attempt to unravel the mystery of Gogol and explain the nature of his actions and plans.

The full text of “Nikolai Gogol” is published for the first time. In addition to the comments of the editor and compiler A. Babikov, this edition contains additional materials - letters and reviews from 1943-1944, illuminating the perception of this book by Russian emigrants in America.
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