Re: I read The Nose last week and will read The Overcoat tonight. Here is a brief
everynametaken Send a noteboard - 18/06/2010 04:12:26 AM
impression on what little I have read. It didn't neccessarily make sense but I enjoyed it anyway. I startled myself by laughing out loud in one part. I smiled through several parts because he has an imaginative way of depicting people.
I have been wondering how to explain what it did for me and today I finally came up with a comparison. It was a little like watching an episode of "Seinfeld". There wasn't much of a plot. It didn't need one. It was just a series of amusing and improbable incidents, with eccentric characters, that were cleverly worded and described. I hope that comparison doesn't insult anyone's sensibilities but the basic pattern is similar.
I worked 14 hour days all this week so I didn't have enough time to read before but I have a few days off now so I hope to join in the discussion tomorrow.
I have been wondering how to explain what it did for me and today I finally came up with a comparison. It was a little like watching an episode of "Seinfeld". There wasn't much of a plot. It didn't need one. It was just a series of amusing and improbable incidents, with eccentric characters, that were cleverly worded and described. I hope that comparison doesn't insult anyone's sensibilities but the basic pattern is similar.
I worked 14 hour days all this week so I didn't have enough time to read before but I have a few days off now so I hope to join in the discussion tomorrow.
Interesting comparison to Seinfeld but I like it.
I could totally see throwing the nose of the bridge to be rid of it at exactly the moment a police officer is walking by something that would be very Constanza-like. Or, when Kovalyov addresses the mother of the daughter he has flirted with only later to realize she wasn't involved at all - very comical in a Seinfeld-ish kind of way.
But wine was the great assassin of both tradition and propriety...
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
Gogol: The Nose/The Overcoat
- 16/06/2010 02:28:27 PM
1083 Views
The Nose is... odd.
- 16/06/2010 05:29:51 PM
592 Views
I view it as a I view dreams using anachronistic Freudian interpretations.
- 16/06/2010 06:43:12 PM
622 Views
Re: I view it as a I view dreams using anachronistic Freudian interpretations.
- 19/06/2010 04:34:27 PM
545 Views
I like The Overcoat better.
- 16/06/2010 08:27:38 PM
586 Views
The Overcoat, while also fantastical, is easier to understand I think
- 17/06/2010 03:23:11 PM
681 Views
I read The Nose last week and will read The Overcoat tonight. Here is a brief
- 18/06/2010 03:44:32 AM
556 Views
Re: I read The Nose last week and will read The Overcoat tonight. Here is a brief
- 18/06/2010 04:12:26 AM
566 Views
While the stories are entertaining, they didn't leave me with that much to say.
- 13/07/2010 01:52:10 AM
564 Views
I keep trying to think of something to add to this discussion and I can't.
- 18/06/2010 02:39:34 PM
594 Views
