6/6/2023 0 Comments The dead souls gogol![]() ![]() What's left of Gogol's wife, named Caracas, inevitably finds its way to the fireplace. ![]() Alas, the marriage comes to a bad end, due to over-inflation, and perhaps Landolfi would argue that over-inflation is what doomed the second volume of Dead Souls as well. Gogol to be a life-sized balloon, inflatable through a valve placed in her anal sphincter. There's also a very fine short story by the Italian surrealist Tommaso Landolfi, "Gogol's Wife," that reveals the heretofore unknown Mrs. The most famous of these is Vladimir Nabokov's 1944 biography, Gogol, which with Olympian style dismissed the prevailing view of the writer as a social commentator. Nikolai Gogol, whose 200th birthday added literary luster to April Fool's Day this year, has inspired some offbeat readings of his work. Adapted from remarks at the 92nd Street Y, New York, March 30th, 2009 ![]()
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