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8 octobre 2021
- handle: 10670/1.tcih3t
- isbn: 9781800641198
- eisbn: 9782821868144
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Russian literature classics anticipatory plagiarism Tolstoy Gogol comparative literature cultural heritage Russian Studies nineteenth-century literature LIT004240 Literature Slavic DSBSujets proches
World literature Western literature (Western countries) Belles-lettres Mental imagery Mental images Imagery, Mental Images, MentalCiter ce document
Timothy Langen, « 1. Something for Nothing: Imagination and Collapse in O’Brien, Krzhizhanovsky, and Gogol », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.tcih3t
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But the other thing—his having been born on the 1st of April—is true. Vladimir Nabokov, on Nikolai Gogol He died, aged fifty-four, on April Fool’s Day, 1966. Hugh Kenner, on Flann O’Brien This essay explores several connections among the imaginary worlds of Flann O’Brien (pseudonym of Brian O’Nolan, 1911–1966), Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (1887–1950), and Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852). For each writer, the imagination offers the possibility not just of inventing people, things, and events, but also,...