Nouvelles de Pétersbourg
Texte intégral révisé suivi d'une biographie de Nicolas Gogol. "Le Manteau", "Le Journal d'un Fou", "Le Nez", "La Perspective Nevsky" et "Le Portrait", cinq récits fantastiques où l'humour le dispute à la satire et au non-sens. Cinq chefs-d'oeuvre ayant en commun la Saint-Pétersbourg des années 1830, cette nouvelle capitale cosmopolite de la grande Russie que Gogol transfigure ici en un inquiétant théâtre d'ombres à travers les angoisses et les obsessions de ses personnages. "On a beaucoup discuté sur mon compte et étudié quelques-uns de mes aspects, mais nul n'a jamais défini ma véritable essence. Seul Pouchkine l'a comprise. Il me disait toujours qu'aucun autre écrivain ne possédait le don de faire sentir aussi vivement la platitude de la vie, de faire ressortir avec tant de force la trivialité de l'homme vulgaire, de faire jaillir aux yeux du lecteur toutes les bagatelles, tous les petits riens qui nous échappent d'habitude." - Gogol.
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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."
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