RUSS 223 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Bronze Horseman, Unreliable Narrator
22 Feb 2018
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Or a middling sort: gogol says that he can"t make him a hero in book one, but will be able to in (cid:884, he is the only character that is actually doing something. People in the delved so deeply into his psychology story, the serfs, or everyone: makes us no better than the towns people. Is this a good thing: page 220: chichikov takes to the road and shifts to thinking about russia, no sublime landscapes, it is still humorous, but now the seriousness has risen, page 248: vastness, grandness of russia. The troika becomes russia: optimistic view: link to the (cid:498)bronze horseman(cid:499), russia as flying to the, gogol wanted to do this in his next books, but couldn"t write them. What does this say about us: question of what it would look like if these people were to have souls.
