Vertiginous Details in Gogol’s Petersburg Stories
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TexteLangue : français Détails de publication : 2010.
Ressources en ligne : Abrégé : Gogol’s attention to minute details in his Petersburg stories results from a satirical tradition that goes back to Sterne through Xavier de Maistre and Töpffer. The diversion of analogies taken from the arts ( ekphrasis) or science (observation) leads to a subversive approach to reality. By reversing the hierarchy of importance, the de-centering of the world reveals its arbitrary and distressing vacuity.
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Gogol’s attention to minute details in his Petersburg stories results from a satirical tradition that goes back to Sterne through Xavier de Maistre and Töpffer. The diversion of analogies taken from the arts ( ekphrasis) or science (observation) leads to a subversive approach to reality. By reversing the hierarchy of importance, the de-centering of the world reveals its arbitrary and distressing vacuity.
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