Fanger, Donald - The Creation of Nikolai Gogol

Cambridge [MA], Harvard University Press, 1979. orig. cloth. 24x16cm, xvi,300 pp, In a rubbed dustwrapper.. 2pp pnhoto illustrations.. Minor rubbing. Light bump to bottom cotner. Some page-edge soil. ¶ Contents: The Gogol Problem: Perspectives form Absence; The Sense of Absence: Immidiate Contexts; Improvising a Vocation; Beginnings: Miscellaneous Writings; Beginnings: Fiction; Confronting a Public, I; Embracing a Calling; Epic Intentions; Dead Souls: The Mirror and the Road; Confronting a Public, II; The Surviving Presence; The Gogolian Universe: Notes Toward a Theory; Sense, Shape, End.