{"product_id":"nikolai-gogol","title":"Nikolai Gogol","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eNikolai Gogol\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eVladimir Nabokov\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e0811201201\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eNew Directions\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1961\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eLater Printing\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e172\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eModerate edge wear. Binding good. May have marking in text. We sometimes source from libraries. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eThis biography begins with Gogol's death and ends with his birth, an inverted structure typical of both Gogol and Nabokov. The biographer proceeds to establish the relationship between Gogol and his novels, especially with regard to \"nose-consciousness\", a peculiar feature of Russian life and letters, which finds its apotheosis in Gogol's own life and prose. There are more expressions and proverbs concerning the nose in Russian than in any other language in the world. Nabokov's style in this biography is comic, but as always leads to serious issues--in this case, an appreciation of the distinctive \"sense of the physical\" inherent in Gogol's work. Nabokov describes how Gogol's life and literature mingled, and explains the structure and style of Gogol's prose in terms of the novelist's life.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"New Directions","offers":[{"title":"Nikolai Gogol | Vladimir Nabokov | Paperback | 0811201201 | Used: Good | Back Stacks E 1785105","offer_id":50776506859778,"sku":"1785105","price":18.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/71SwqOfhcyL.jpg?v=1792153293","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/nikolai-gogol","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}