New dating of N.V. Gogol’s fifty letters
The article is devoted to the objective reconstruction of Gogol's correspondence and biography. Dating of Gogol’s fifty letters to different correspondents are corrected. Exceptionally significant cases of erroneous dating, from some months to several years, are presented. The article does not...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Russian Academy of Sciences. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature
2018-12-01
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| Series: | Литературный факт |
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| Online Access: | http://litfact.ru/images/2018-10/LF-2018-10_393-427_Vinogradov.pdf |
| Summary: | The article is devoted to the objective reconstruction of Gogol's correspondence and biography. Dating of Gogol’s fifty letters to different correspondents are corrected. Exceptionally significant cases of erroneous dating, from some months to several years, are presented. The article does not consider those cases when the dating differs on one or two days, when Gogol sends a letter the next or the second day after it is written. Letters from all periods of Gogol's life and creative work: seven letters of 1840, six of 1849 and 1850, five of 1839, four of 1851, three of 1837, two of 1838, 1841, 1844, 1845, 1848 and 1852, one of 1822, 1836, 1840–1841, 1842, 1843 and one of 1848 or 1851 received a new dating corresponding to reality. Numerous historical and archival materials, biographical information, memoirs and epistolary sources etc. are used for argumentation. |
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| ISSN: | 2541-8297 2542-2421 |