In Gogol's Shadow

by A.D.) Terts, Abram (Siniavskii

Book Overview

Andrei Sinyavsky wrote In Gogol's Shadow while serving time in a Soviet labor camp. Opening with Gogol's funeral, this unorthodox biography strips the man away from the myth. Sinyavsky challenges the deeply held Russian and Soviet view--promoted by Gogol--that Gogol was first and foremost a political writer, whose biting satire was part of a quest for his country's salvation. In Gogol's Shadow reveals a writer more obsessed with language...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231181779
• ISBN13: 9780231181778
• Release Date: January 2028
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 384 Pages