title: Sasha Sokolov and N. Gogol: Character problematisation
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metadata.value: Baranov, Dmitry K.
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metadata.value: 2019-01-28T14:56:43Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2019-01-28T14:56:43Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Baranov D. K. [Sasha Sokolov and N. Gogol: character problematisation]. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2018, 15 (4): 638–650.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu09.2018.411
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/15347
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: Sasha Sokolov in his novel A School for Fools focuses on Nikolai Gogol’s prose (The Overcoat,
  Dead Souls). Sokolov inherits some principles of work with the character system from Gogol. In
  The Overcoat we can observe how the boundaries between the character and the depicted world
  or the narrator’s speech are blurred. Bashmachkin loses his integrity, turning from an independent
  hero into an element of a St. Petersburg myth. In Sokolov’s novel we see a similar situation,
  for example, in the episode where the protagonist transforms into a water lily. The birth of some
  characters of A School for Fools from the speech of the narrator is interpreted as playing with
  Gogol’s method. In Dead Souls, the elements that are traditionally considered parts of a hero
  (name, actions, characteristics, etc.) often appear in the speech of the narrator, but the hero
  himself does not exist in the depicted world. Narrator’s digressions in A School for Fools show
  a similar situation. Thus, postmodern features of Sokolov’s poetics are actually associated with
  Gogol’s tradition. The origins of Gogol’s character problematisation lie in Evenings on a Farm
  Near Dikanka. The loss of semantic integrity by some characters in Gogol’s prose contributes to
  the destruction of the boundaries between the narrative instances, and between the real world
  and the depicted one. Gogol strove for ambiguity, and Sokolov brings that aspiration to the
  limit: Sokolov implies that the main character of his novel “goes out” into an external reality, but
  at the same time Sokolov casts doubt on the very possibility of such transition.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 15; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: N. V. Gogol
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Sasha Sokolov
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: character
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: narratology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: comparative study
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: postmodernism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Sasha Sokolov and N. Gogol: Character problematisation
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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