| Subject: | RE Nabokov and Thoreau |
|---|---|
| Date: | Thu, 12 Jan 2006 12:21:07 -0500 |
| From: | Sergey Karpukhin <sak5w@virginia.edu> |
| To: | NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU |
A
sympathetically pictured priest in the midst of the
Gogolian characters of the first volume [of DEAD SOULS] would have been
as
utterly impossible as a gauloiserie
in Pascal or a quotation from Thoreau in Stalin’s latest speech. –
NIKOLAI
GOGOL (
Sergey
Karpukhin