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- Title
Overt and Covert Shandyism of Nabokov's Nikolai Gogol.
- Authors
Ordukhanyan, Margarit
- Abstract
In her article "Overt and Covert Shandyism of Nabokov's Nikolai Gogol" Margarit Ordu-khanyan examines Vladimir Nabokov's 1942 novel, an unusual biography of the nineteenth-century Russian author. Ordukhanyan discusses parallels between Nabokov's biography of Gogol and Laurence Sterne's Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy. She highlights the direct allusions and textual references Nabokov makes to Sterne's novel and argues that Nabokov uses Tristram Shandy as the model for creating and interpreting his biography of Gogol by fictionalizing Gogol and portraying him as a Shandean character. Further, Ordukhanyan discusses how Nabokov uses Sterne's novel to undermine the genre of literary biography.
- Subjects
NIKOLAI Gogol (Book); NABOKOV, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977; BIOGRAPHY (Literary form); BIOGRAPHIES of authors; 19TH century Russian authors; SHANDY, Tristram (Fictional character); RUSSIAN literature
- Publication
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature & Culture: A Web Journal, 2015, Vol 17, Issue 4, p1
- ISSN
1481-4374
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.7771/1481-4374.2773