Le Nez (édition enrichie)

Name: Le Nez (édition enrichie)
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Author: Nicolas Gogol
ISBN: 9782072577970

Nicolas Gogol

Henri Mongault (translation), Georges Nivat (foreword)

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Edition enrichie de Georges Nivat comportant une préface et un dossier sur le roman.

"Mon Dieu, mon Dieu, pourquoi m'envoyez-vous cette calamité ? [...] Sans nez, un homme n'est plus un homme. [...]. Si encore je l'avais perdu en duel, ou à la guerre, ou par ma faute !... Hélas non ! il a disparu comme cela, sans rime ni raison... Non, reprit-il après quelques instants de silence, c'est inconcevable."

Nicolas Gogol

Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1 April [O.S. 20 March] 1809 – 4 March [O.S. 21 February] 1852) was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin. Gogol used the grotesque in his writings, for example in his works "The Nose", "Viy", "The Overcoat", and "Nevsky Prospekt". These stories, and others such as "Diary of a Madman", have also been noted for their proto-surrealist qualities. According to Viktor Shklovsky, Gogol used the technique of defamiliarization, whereby a writer presents common things in an unfamiliar or strange way so that the reader can gain new perspectives and see the world differently. His early works, such as Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, were influenced by his Ukrainian upbringing, Ukrainian culture and folklore. His later writing satirised political corruption in contemporary Russia (The Government Inspector, Dead Souls), although Gogol also enjoyed the patronage of Tsar Nicholas I, who liked his work. The novel Taras Bulba (1835), the play Marriage (1842), and the short stories "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich", "The Portrait", and "The Carriage" are also among his best-known works. Many writers and critics have recognized Gogol's deep influence on Russian, Ukrainian and world literature. Gogol's influence was acknowledged by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Franz Kafka, Mikhail Bulgakov, Vladimir Nabokov, Flannery O'Connor and others. Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé said: "We all came out from under Gogol's Overcoat."