Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends

by Nikolai Gogol

Overview

Nikolai Gogol wrote some letters to his friends, none of which were a nose of high rank. Many are reproduced here (the letters, not noses).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826513748
Publisher:	Vanderbilt University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1969
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.67(d)

About the Author

Novelist, dramatist, and satirist Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) was a Russian writer of Ukrainian ancestry whose works deeply influenced later Russian literature through powerful depictions of a society dominated by petty bureaucracy and base corruption. Gogol’s best-known short stories — "The Nose" and "The Overcoat" — display strains of Surrealism and the grotesque, while his greatest novel, Dead Souls, is one of the founding books of Russian realism.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	vii
	Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends	1
	Preface	3
I	Testament	7
II	Woman in the World	14
III	The Meaning of Sickness	19
IV	A Question of Words	21
V	On Public Readings of Russian Poets	26
VI	Help the Poor	29
VII	The Odyssey in Zhukovsky's Translation	32
VIII	A Few Words on Our Church and Our Clergy	42
IX	On the Same Subject	45
X	On the Lyricism of Our Poets	48
XI	Controversies	65
XII	The Christian Goes Forward	68
XIII	Karamzin	71
XIV	On the Theater, on the One-sided View towards the Theater, and on One-sidedness in General	73
XV	Subjects for the Lyric Poets of the Present Time	85
XVI	Counsels	90
XVII	Enlightenment	92
XVIII	Four Letters to Divers Persons Apropos Dead Souls	96
XIX	It is Necessary to Love Russia	111
XX	It Is Necessary to Travel through Russia	113
XXI	What the Wife of a Provincial Governor Is	122
XXII	The Russian Landowner	137
XXIII	The Historical Painter Ivanov	146
XXIV	What a Wife Can Do for Her Husband in Simple Domestic Matters, as Things Now Are in Russia	158
XXV	Rural Justice and Punishment	163
XXVI	Fears and Dreads in Russia	166
XXVII	To a Myopic Friend	171
XXVIII	To One Who Occupies an Important Position	174
XXIX	Whose Is the Loftiest Fate on Earth	195
XXX	An Exhortation	197
XXXI	On the Essence of Russian Poetry and On Its Originality	199
XXXII	Easter Sunday	250
	Index	261