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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 (Ch. 4), p. 136.

 

Sergey Karpukhin