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The Hunger Artist
Author: Darra Goldstein
Russian Life: Mar/Apr 2009
Department: Features
Page: 34 ( 6) pages
Summary: Gogol's writing is intensely sensual - full of rich tastes, smells, sights and sounds. We consider how his fixation on food and digestion influenced his storytelling, how, as Nabokov put it, "the belly is the belle of his stories."
This article appeared in the Mar/Apr 2009 issue of Russian Life. The text of this article is not available online.
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Weblinks related to this story:
- Gastronomica Magazine Author Darra Goldstein's award-winning magazine on food and culture.
- Gogol Gastronomy A nice blog by a journalist in the UK on food and literature, esp Gogol.