books.google.com - This biography begins with Gogol's death and ends with his birth, an inverted structure typical of both Gogol and Nabokov. The biographer proceeds to establish the relationship between Gogol and his novels, especially with regard to "nose-consciousness", a peculiar feature of Russian life and letters,...http://books.google.com/books/about/Nikolai_Gogol.html?id=GwfplQ3OK8EC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareNikolai Gogol
