The World of Nikolai Gogol. The Odessa Context. Review of: Nikolai Gogol in Odessa, edited by Valentina Musiy, Odessa 2014 Cover Image

Świat Mikołaja Gogola – kontekst odeski. Rec.:М.В. Гоголь в Одесі, наукові редактори Валентина Б. Мусій, Одеса 2014
The World of Nikolai Gogol. The Odessa Context. Review of: Nikolai Gogol in Odessa, edited by Valentina Musiy, Odessa 2014

Author(s): Natalia Maliutina
Subject(s): Review
Published by: Towarzystwo Literackie im. Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: Nikolai Gogol; Odessa; biography; Odessa press; reception;

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the merits of the Ukrainian-language publication entitled Nikolai Gogol in Odessa (М.В. Гоголь в Одесі), published in 2014 in Odessa, as a part of the Literary Odessa. Biographical Materials> (Літературна Одеса: матеріали до біографії) edited by Valentina Musiy. The book is supplemented with a valuable bibliography (and an anthology of texts) presenting a list of Gogol’s works written in Odessa (including a version of The Government Inspector) and the reception of his works by the Odessa newspapers and the scholars associated with them. It presents the celebrated writer’s relationship with Odessa and its inhabitants during his two stays there: in 1848 and in 1850–1851.

  • Issue Year: L/2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 671-675
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Polish