Gogol's Artistry

ISBN-13: 9780810125902 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 504 str.

Andrei Bely; Christopher Colbath; Vyacheslav Ivanov

Opis

When one great author engages another, as Andrei Bely so brilliantly does in "Gogol s Artistry, "the result is inevitably a telling portrait of both writers. So it is in "Gogol s Artistry. "Translated into English for the first time, this idiosyncratic, exhaustive critical study is as interesting for what it tells us about Bely s thought and method as it is for its insights into the oeuvre of his literary predecessor. Bely s argument in this book is that Gogol s earlier writing should be given more consideration than most critics have granted. Employing what might be called a scientific perspective, Bely considers how often certain colors appear; he diagrams sentences and discusses Gogol s prose in terms of mathematical equations. The result, as strange and engaging as Bely s best fiction, is also an innovative, thorough, and remarkably revealing work of criticism."