Gogol was imitated by many authors. Ryonusuke Akutagawa wrote a short story called the Nose. Also Gogol's. Gogol was a genius but he remains in the shadow of the big guys like Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.
Finally read Lu Xun's Dairy of a Mad Man today. I can see the influence of Gogol, but Xun did on his own a convincing job of portraying a paranoid mind. The narrator slips through different versions of reality seamlessly. The political aspect is clear with the speech the narrator gives his brother near the end.
Pearl S. Buck wrote about cannibalism too in her novel "the good earth". . it was a Chinese family in ancient China story written by an American naturalist. .
Gogol was imitated by many authors. Ryonusuke Akutagawa wrote a short story called the Nose. Also Gogol's. Gogol was a genius but he remains in the shadow of the big guys like Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.
I'm a big fan of Russian literature, thanks for your interesting video.
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Finally read Lu Xun's Dairy of a Mad Man today. I can see the influence of Gogol, but Xun did on his own a convincing job of portraying a paranoid mind. The narrator slips through different versions of reality seamlessly.
The political aspect is clear with the speech the narrator gives his brother near the end.
Great points! I would love to read more of his works.
I came across the story late at night on one of the old time radio shows.
Pearl S. Buck wrote about cannibalism too in her novel "the good earth". . it was a Chinese family in ancient China story written by an American naturalist. .
i wonder if there was an old Chinese tale about cannibalism
The old time radio had rather an unpleasant name but rather sophisticated stories. The name was Black Mass.
For those who are wondering cannibalism is/was a rather common metaphor in ancient China.