8 octobre 2021
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Timothy Langen, « 1. Something for Nothing: Imagination and Collapse in O’Brien, Krzhizhanovsky, and Gogol », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.tcih3t
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,...