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Nikolai Gogol

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From 1942 to 1944, shortly after moving to the United States, Vladimir Nabokov wrote a book about Nikolai Gogol, transforming the genius's biography into a deeply personal and bold statement about the true and false in art. Nabokov's famous passages, explaining the meaning of "vulgarity" to American readers and mocking the conventions of advertising, were written for this book and remain poignant to this day. Despite various deviations from the requirements of the biographical genre, "Nikolai Gogol" encompasses the writer's entire creative career, dwelling on every twist and turn of his unusual life, and is provided with a detailed "Chronology" and index. Infusing every page of this book with his own experiences as a writer, Nabokov makes a conscientious attempt, in his own way, to unravel the mystery of Gogol and explain the nature of his actions and intentions.

The full text of "Nikolai Gogol" is published for the first time. In addition to the comments by the editor and compiler A. Babikov, this edition contains additional materials—letters and reviews from 1943–1944—that illuminate the reception of this book by Russian emigrants in America.
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