"The Nose" A Stylistic and Critical Companion to Nikolai Gogol's Story
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Biografisk notat
Ksana Blank is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University. She is the author of Dostoevsky’s Dialectics and the Problem of Sin (Northwestern University, 2010) and Spaces of Creativity: Essays on Russian Literature and the Arts (Academic Studies Press, 2016)."Ksana Blank's commentary to "The Nose" will be useful not only to advanced undergraduates and graduate students, but also to scholars, particularly to those who do not speak Russian natively. She has an admirable ability to reconstruct the context of Gogol's St. Petersburg, both in the everyday life of the capital and in the idioms that Gogol consciously fractures and rearranges." <br />- Michael Wachtel, Princeton University<br />
Ksana Blank's commentary to "The Nose" will be useful not only to advanced undergraduates and graduate students, but also to scholars, particularly to those who do not speak Russian natively. She has an admirable ability to reconstruct the context of Gogol's St. Petersburg, both in the everyday life of the capital and in the idioms that Gogol consciously fractures and rearranges." - Michael Wachtel, Princeton University
- Note on Translation and Transliteration
- Introduction
- Н. В. Гоголь «Нос»: The Text in Russian
- ANNOTATIONS TO THE RUSSIAN TEXT
- I
- II
- III
- HOW "THE NOSE" IS MADE: Language-Game as the Engine of the Plot
- INTERPRETATIONS
- 1. Joke, Jest, Farce, Anecdote
- 2. Social Satire
- 3. Mockery of the Demonic and of the Sacred
- 4. Chronicle of Folk Superstitions
- 5. A Case of Castration Anxiety
- 6. An Echo of German Romanticism
- 7. Perfect Nonsense 8. Shostakovich's Opera "The Nose"
- 8. Shostakovich's Opera "The Nose"
- 9. A Play with Reality: "The Nose," Kafka, and Dalí
- Instead of a Conclusion
- Selected Bibliography
“This deeply informed commentary on the text of ‘The Nose’ explains religious and cultural material and reveals thematic threads concealed in the Russian. Ksana Blank’s compendium makes meaningful detail accessible and deploys it in a variety of possible interpretations. The commentary and essays together provide English speakers access to the verbal riches of the original that allows them to achieve their own closely-argued reading of Gogol’s gem.”
—Priscilla Meyer, Professor of Russian Language and Literature, Emerita, Wesleyan University
“An admirably illuminating, multifaceted, and thorough analysis of Gogol’s classic story, as well as a consistent pleasure to read—in short, a model of its kind.”
—Donald Fanger, Harry Levin Professor of Literature, Emeritus, Harvard University
“Ksana Blank’s commentary to ‘The Nose’ will be useful not only to advanced undergraduates and graduate students, but also to scholars, particularly to those who do not speak Russian natively. She has an admirable ability to reconstruct the context of Gogol’s St. Petersburg, both in the everyday life of the capital and in the idioms that Gogol consciously fractures and rearranges.”
—Michael Wachtel, Princeton University