Download or read book Gogol from the Twentieth Century written by Robert A. Maguire and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fiction and drama of Gogol, now widely read in English, have delighted, puzzled, and inspired Russian critics for nearly a century and a half. In this anthology, Robert A. Maguire offers to English-speaking readers a selection of the impressive critical achievement that the writings of Gogol have stimulated. Each of the eleven essays is at once a fresh contribution to the study of Gogol and an example of one major school of criticism cultivated in contemporary Russia.