Ambiguity in absurdity : Gogol's the nose and the overcoat.

• Main Author: Yixin, Huang.
• Other Authors: Terence Richard Dawson
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/45366
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

When one thinks of Russian literature, names such as Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alexander Pushkin, and Vladimir Nabokov come to mind. A name which deserves to be added to the list but is often denied equal credit is Nikolai Gogol. Best known for his novel Dead Souls, Gogol is deemed as a better writer than...