| 单词 | Gogol |
| 例句 | In Gogol’s opinion, eight months in Calcutta is practically like moving there, a possibility that, until now, has never even remotely crossed his mind. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Inside, Gogol empties his pockets and steps through a metal detector, as if he were at an airport, about to embark on a journey. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She kisses Gogol on the top of his head, presses her cheek to his. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Only for three months was he separated by more than a few small states from his father, a distance that had not troubled Gogol in the least, until it was too late. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z For the sake of Gogol and Sonia they celebrate, with progressively increasing fanfare, the birth of Christ, an event the children look forward to far more than the worship of Durga and Saraswati. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The idea of returning year after year to a single place appeals to Gogol deeply. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t get it. How could you guys name me after someone so strange? No one takes me seriously,” Gogol said. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Go on, Gogol,” he says, patting him on the head. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol and Maxine come and go as they please, from movies and dinners out. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z No one notices as Gogol and his three friends make their way across the room to the keg. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol remained at the table with his father. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She wanders around with Gogol, letting him run across the quadrangle, or sitting with him on rainy days to watch television in the student lounge. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol is accustomed to the scenery, yet he still stares, at the short, dark men pulling rickshaws and the crumbling buildings side by side with fretwork balconies, hammers and sickles painted on their facades. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But something tells Gogol the coat belongs to the girl, and so he stops and says, “Is that yours?” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z If a person in the room says “Gogol,” he turns his head and smiles. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “As I recall, given that you’re a year older than me, I was taught by my parents to call you Gogol Dada.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The one day he tries, Uma Maima, watching from the rooftop, sends a servant to follow him so that Gogol doesn’t get lost. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But Lydia pays no attention to Gogol’s plate. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol gets up and shuts the door behind his father, who has the annoying habit of always leaving it partly open. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Lawson is the first of Gogol’s teachers to know and to care about Gogol the author. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He has never been told why he was really named Gogol, doesn’t know about the accident that had nearly killed his father. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Instead, to Gogol Ganguli’s relief, they take turns reading aloud from “The Necklace,” by Guy de Maupassant. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But his mother insists; his father is leaving for Ohio the following day—doesn’t Gogol want to go with them to the airport, to see him off? The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z They do not look in the historic district, where the chairman of Ashoke’s department lives, in an eighteenth-century mansion to which he and Ashima and Gogol are invited once a year for Boxing Day tea. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But now the days that had once dragged rush all too quickly toward evening—those same hours are consumed with Gogol, pacing the three rooms of the apartment with him in her arms. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Ashoke takes photographs of every room, Gogol standing somewhere in the frame, to send to relatives in India. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z They are passionate spokespeople for their brand of life, giving Gogol and Moushumi a steady, unquestionable stream of advice about quotidian things. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z One Saturday, soon before he is scheduled to take the SAT, his family drives to Connecticut for the weekend, leaving Gogol at home alone overnight for the first time in his life. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z And so Gogol goes sightseeing, alone, while Moushumi is off at her conference, or as she sits at the table in the apartment and puts the final touches on her paper. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She is in high school now, taking Mr. Lawson’s English class, going to the dances Gogol never went to himself, already going to parties at which both boys and girls are present. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But for the past week, Gogol has been in bed, just like his mother, listless, without appetite, claiming to have a stomachache, even vomiting one day into his mother’s pink wastepaper basket. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol goes for runs around the lake with Gerald, arduous laps along steep hilly dirt roads, so infrequently traveled that they can occupy the dead center. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “To me and your mother, you will never be anyone but Gogol.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In the evenings, after dinner, they set out in their car, Gogol in the back seat, to look at houses for sale. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol hopes that perhaps the biographical portion of the lecture is over. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Gogol enters the world,” his father will eventually write on the back in Bengali letters. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol has already been taught to eat on his own with his fingers, not to let the food stain the skin of his palm. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z His gray hair looks more sparse than the last time Gogol remembers, his potbelly more pronounced. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But the idea of it haunts Gogol as well. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “I didn’t know the baby’s name,” Gogol says, which is when his parents tell him. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In Bengali class they read from hand-sewn primers brought back by their teacher from Calcutta, intended for five-year-olds, printed, Gogol can’t help noticing, on paper that resembles the folded toilet paper he uses at school. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In spite of his father’s occasional suggestions, he has never been inspired to read a word of Gogol, or any Russian writer, for that matter. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “It’s only boys having fun,” he tells Gogol, flicking the matter away with the back of a hand, and that evening they drive back to the hardware store, to buy the missing letters again. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol and Moushumi sit cross-legged, first opposite each other, then side by side. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Before Gogol’s birth, her days had followed no visible pattern. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But Gogol goes from grave to grave with paper and crayon in hand, bringing to life one name after another, peregrine wotton, D. 1699. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol occasionally opens up one of his textbooks, bloated from the heat. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He feels hidden himself; men on the streets stare at Moushumi constantly, their glances lingering plainly, in spite of the fact that Gogol is at her side. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol darts in and out of the ocean, making faint, temporary footprints, soaking his rolled-up cuffs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z At his mother’s flat on Amherst Street, where his uncle’s family lives now, neighbors look from their windows and roofs as Gogol and his family emerge from the taxi. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Gogol is an outstanding student, curious and cooperative,” his teachers write year after year on report cards. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z They have come to rely on her, Gogol realizes, to collect them together, to organize the holiday, to convert it, to introduce the tradition to those who are new. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol picks up a pencil, grips it tightly, and forms the letters of the only word he has learned thus far to write from memory, getting the “L” backward due to nerves. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Sonia holds the pole, and Gogol and Ben insert the branches. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It was one thing for Gogol to be the name penned in calligraphy on his high school diploma, and printed below his picture in the yearbook, he’d begun. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He provides a copy of Gogol’s birth certificate and immunization record, which Mrs. McNab puts in a folder along with the registration. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol hates it because it keeps him from attending every other session of a Saturday-morning drawing class he’s enrolled in, at the suggestion of his art teacher. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Lawson’s left hand guides the chalk rapidly across the board, but Gogol’s pen begins to lag. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol will arrive in New York in time for dinner as well. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She is tempted to sleep as Gogol does. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But Gogol knows that eight months is no vacation. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z This had led, in turn, to the accident of his being named Gogol, defining and distressing him for so many years. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “These are for you,” she says, handing Ashima a cellophane-wrapped basket full of tinned pates and jars of cornichons and chutneys that Gogol knows his parents will never open or enjoy. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The bread, like a hard, dusty cushion, is fall of prune-sized holes and has a crust that hurts the roof of Gogol’s mouth when he chews. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol notices in certain restaurants that they are the only Indians apart from the serving staff. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “You are never at your apartment, Gogol. In the middle of the night I have called and you are not there.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “She just got back,” the doorman tells Gogol with a wink as he walks past, and his heart leaps, unburdened of its malaise, grateful for her simple act of returning to him. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “His glasses are missing,” Gogol says, looking up at Mr. Davenport. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It has been years since he’s been Gogol to anyone other than his family, their friends. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z On his first trip to the basement, Gogol sees a table on which other tenants have left things up for grabs: books, videotapes, a white casserole with a clear glass lid. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol and Sonia are woken by these deaths in the early mornings, their parents screaming on the other side of thin bedroom walls. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Her father stands up, smiling nervously, forgets to raise his glass, and says, “Thank you very much for coming,” then turns to Gogol and Moushumi: “Okay, be happy.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol savors each mouthful, aware that for the next eight months nothing will taste quite the same. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Actually, that’s my middle name,” Gogol says by way of explanation, sitting with them in the common room to their suite. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol is unaware of which state they are in, which stations they’ve passed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z And then one day her mother called, asking if she remembered a boy named Gogol. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Try to remember it always,” he said once Gogol had reached him, leading him slowly back across the breakwater, to where his mother and Sonia stood waiting. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol receives several dictionaries, several calculators, several Cross pen-and-pencil sets, several ugly sweaters. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But Gogol, already short and catchy, resists mutation. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Go, Gogol!” his classmates shout on golden autumn days as he runs the bases or sprints in a dash. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Even more startling is when those who normally call him Gogol refer to him as Nikhil. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol pays the bills, shovels the driveway when it snows. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Ashoke had thought of it recently, staring mindlessly at the Gogol spines in the library, and he had rushed back to the house to ask Ashima her opinion. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z They try to incorporate Gogol into similar plans; this summer, for example, they are thinking of renting a house on the coast of Brittany. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol imagines his father by the door, bending over to tie his shoelaces for the last time. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Read the Gogol for tomorrow,” he hollers as they shuffle through the door. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In order to prove that Gogol knows English, Ashoke does something he has never done before, and addresses his son in careful, accented English. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol’s first home is a fully furnished apartment ten minutes by foot to Harvard, twenty to MIT. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But really the job was a ruse; she and Gogol had decided that it was best for her to return to New York alone. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She wanders freely around a city in which Gogol, in spite of his many visits, has no sense of direction. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Two days later, coming back from school, Gogol finds his mother at home again, wearing a bathrobe instead of a sari, and sees his sister awake for the first time. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The guidance counselor suggests that perhaps Gogol could join his parents later, after the school year ends, stay with a relative until June. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol had been asked to write numbers on squares of paper, one set to tape onto the gifts and another to pass around, folded up in a drawstring pouch, to the guests. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Sitting on the sofa, where Gogol sits now? The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It never crosses his parents’ minds that instead of taking timed practice tests in his room, Gogol will drive with Colin and Jason and Marc to a party. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The following day, Mr. Lawson writes “Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol” in capital letters on the board, draws a box around it, then writes the dates of the author’s birth and death in parentheses. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “I feel a special kinship with Gogol,” Ashoke says, “more than with any other writer. Do you know why?” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol slouches in his seat and ponders certain awkward truths. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z There is a reason Gogol doesn’t want to go to kindergarten. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z When they are alone, Mrs. Lapidus asks, “Are you happy to be entering elementary school, Gogol?” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z They are invited by Colin’s older brother, who is a freshman at the university where Gogol’s father teaches. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The first people to call him by his new name are his suitemates, Brandon and Jonathan, both of whom had been notified by mail over the summer that his name is Gogol. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z A number of the authors’ names have been starred with penciled asterisks by previous readers, but there is no sign or mark by Nikolai Gogol’s name. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Countless people come to congratulate Gogol, saying they had seen him when he was so little, asking him to pose for photographs, to wrap his arms around families and smile. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He has never touched the Gogol book his father gave him on his fourteenth birthday. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “I think he’s falling asleep again,” he adds, looking at Gogol, whose cheeks are working methodically at his wife’s breast. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z When his parents tell him, one evening after dinner, Gogol thinks they’re joking. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z One weekend Gogol makes the mistake of referring to New Haven as home. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Well, now you know what to get her for her birthday,” she says, looking at Gogol. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He had told Gogol that Ganguli is a legacy of the British, an anglicized way of pronouncing his real surname, Gangopadhyay. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In the mornings Gogol watches his cousins put on their white and blue school uniforms and strap water bottles across their chests. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Once or twice a week, he will hear “Gogol” over the wires, see it typed on a screen. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Though it is his last name, too, something tells Gogol that the desecration is intended for his parents more than Sonia and him. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol and Sonia sleep for as long as they want, watch television, make themselves peanut butter and jelly sandwiches at any time of day. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But Gogol’s guidance counselor expresses concern when Gogol informs him that he will be missing the entire second half of the tenth grade. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Pamela, Nick’s American,” Lydia says, leaning across the table, rescuing Gogol from the conversation. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She’s wearing an old blue down jacket that Gogol had worn back in high school. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol watches as Donald begins to remove the clams from their bath, scrubbing the shells with something that looks like a tiny toilet bowl brush, then tossing them one by one into the stockpot. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol, he’s been tempted to tell his father on more than one occasion, was his father’s favorite author, not his. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The elephant is a replica of a drawing her father had done for Gogol over twenty-seven years ago, in the margins of an aerogramme. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z These people, these honorary aunts and uncles of a dozen different surnames, have seen Gogol grow, have surrounded him at his wedding, his father’s funeral. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Everyone who comes to his going-away-to-college party writes “Good Luck, Gogol” on the cards. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol is dressed in powder blue pants, red and white canvas sneakers, a striped turtleneck top. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Not only does Gogol Ganguli have a pet name turned good name, but a last name turned first name. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Warmth spreads from the back of Gogol’s neck to his cheeks and his ears. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Silas, who has been softly pacing on the floor, comes and presses his head against Gogol’s leg, looking up at him, wagging his tail. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Lately Gogol has started to notice a trend: now that they inhabit this world of couples, dinner party small talk gravitates to the naming of children. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol and Moushumi agree that it’s better to give in to these expectations than to put up a fight. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol’s copy is particularly battered, the corner blunted, the cover spotted as if by a whitish mold. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Later that evening, out to dinner with Jonathan at a restaurant on Chapel Street, Ashima slips, asking, “Gogol, have you decided yet what your major will be?” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He could have been Gogol only fifty percent of the time. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gerald asks questions about the recent rise of Hindu fundamentalism, a topic Gogol knows little about. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol remembers having to do the same thing when he was younger, when his grandparents died, his mother yelling at him when he forgot one day and had a hamburger at school. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol takes his place on one side of the table, across from Maxine. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z And then, impulsively, admitting it for the first time: “I’m saying I don’t want to raise Gogol alone in this country. It’s not right. I want to go back.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He cannot imagine being with her in the house where he is still Gogol. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z These days he is called Gogol so seldom that the sound of it no longer upsets him as it used to. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He had left him to discover the inscription on his own, never again asking Gogol what he’d thought of the book, never mentioning the book at all. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But at the time Gogol was too young to understand; when the bathroom door opened he had laughed at the sight of his hairless, grief-stricken father, and Sonia, just a baby, had cried. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol was aware of an obligation being fulfilled; that it was, above all else, a sense of duty that drew his parents back. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Hey, the Indian lady forgot her stuff,” she hears as the doors shut, and as the train pulls away she hears a fist pounding on glass, but she keeps walking, pushing Gogol along the platform. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Her favorite, a birthday gift from Gogol, features paintings that hang in the Museum of Modem Art. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Now Gogol looks onto a field, some spindly trees against a cobalt twilight sky. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But Gogol sounds ludicrous to his ears, lacking dignity or gravity. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The following year Ashoke is up for a sabbatical, and Gogol and Sonia are informed that they will all be going to Calcutta for eight months. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z While the rest of the household sleeps, he and Sonia fight over the Walkman, over the melting collection of tapes Gogol recorded back in his room at home. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z By the time Gogol starts, it is already the second week of the school year. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In those six days, there is no time to think of a good name for Gogol. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “I hope you haven’t been standing out in the cold all this time,” Gogol says, and from his father’s lack of response he knows that this is exacdy what he has done. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol is old enough to know that there is no Ganguli here. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Evan tells Gogol that it’s an apartment worth seeing, a Tribeca loft that happens to be designed by one of the partners at the firm. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z And for the first time in his life, another man’s name upset Gogol more than his own. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z On Amherst Street, Gogol sits at his grandfather’s drawing table, poking through a tin full of dried-out nibs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She appears to be at ease with the comparison, looking comically askance at Gogol. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Hello, Gogol,” he whispers, leaning over his son’s haughty face, his tightly bundled body. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Between eleven and one, while Gogol sleeps, she gets dinner out of the way, a habit she will maintain for decades to come. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol keeps walking, from one compartment to the next, looking for an uncrowded vestibule in which he might sit. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In the wan, dreary afternoons Gogol goes running. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol does not know to whom these children belong—half the guests are people his mother has befriended in recent years, people who were at his wedding but whom he does not recognize. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Though Gogol doesn’t know it, even Nikolai Gogol renamed himself, simplifying his surname at the age of twenty-two from Gogol-Yanovsky to Gogol upon publication in the Literary Gazette. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol is especially surprised to see a gift in his father’s hands. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Call you Gogol Dada. I don’t remember our ever talking, really.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He was standing there, waiting for Gogol to catch up, putting out a hand as Gogol drew near. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Her parents had driven up for his father’s funeral, his mother says, from New Jersey, but Gogol has no memory of them there. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol is eating frozen waffles for breakfast, wishing his parents would turn off the music so that he could hear the cartoons he is watching, when his mother’s water breaks. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol sits silently, as if he were any other passenger, lost in his own thoughts, thinking of Moushumi. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In the supermarket they let Gogol fill the cart with items that he and Sonia, but not they, consume: individually wrapped slices of cheese, mayonnaise, tuna fish, hot dogs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol brings up the box from the basement. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol watches them, knowing that it’s all in jest— they’re not the type to do something so impulsive, so naive, to blunder, as his own parents had done. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In November, Gogol develops a mild ear infection. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol gets up, shuts the door to his room, muffling the noise of the party that swells below him, the laughter of the children playing down the hall. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z For Gogol’s lunches they stand at the deli to buy cold cuts, and in the mornings Ashima makes sandwiches with bologna or roast beef. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z His father is still standing there in his room, watching expectantly, his hands clasped together behind his back, so Gogol flips through the book. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Well, okay, there’s that weird thing with Gogol’s name. Like, why does he need two names? It’s actually kind of confusing.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z That Gogol had had nothing to do with it. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He imagines his father, in his twenties as Gogol is now, sitting on a train as Gogol had just been, reading a story, and then suddenly nearly killed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Eventually Gogol is aware of bluish light creeping into the room. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In the evenings Gogol and his father eat together, alone, a week’s worth of chicken curry and rice, which his father cooks in two battered Dutch ovens every Sunday. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z His parents remind him that in the past his teachers have never minded Gogol missing school now and again. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Then she takes Gogol by the hand, down a carpeted hallway with painted cement walls. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “And what about you, Gogol? Do you want to be called by another name?” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Amber and Clover flank Ashima at either side, both delighted when Gogol wraps a hand around each of their fingers. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He wonders if he should touch his father’s face, lay a hand on his forehead as his father used to do to Gogol when he was unwell, to see if he had a fever. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Unlike Moushumi, who is having her hair and make-up professionally styled and applied, Gogol is ready in a matter of minutes. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “According to these documents, your son’s legal name is Gogol.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Thanks, Baba,” Gogol says, eager to return to his lyrics. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Gogol, the camera,” his mother calls out over the crowd. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The substitution sounds wrong to Gogol, correct but off-key, the way it sounds when his parents speak English to him instead of Bengali. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z One day his father takes him to the university library, and shows him, on a shelf well beyond his reach, a row of Gogol spines. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “For Gogol Ganguli,” it says on the front endpaper in his father’s tranquil hand, in red ballpoint ink, the letters rising gradually, optimistically, on the diagonal toward the upper right-hand corner of the page. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z There is no one to greet Gogol on the platform when he gets off the train. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She knows only that it had been either Gogol or Sonia who had picked it out at one of the department stores at the mall, had wrapped it, even. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z A short obituary runs in the town paper, citing the names of Ashima and Gogol and Sonia, mentioning that the children had been educated at the local schools. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “She is your sister, signore?” the waiter asks as he sets the check between them, glancing at Moushumi and then back at Gogol. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes Gogol lies beside her in his parents’ bedroom, reading a picture book, or coloring with crayons. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Ashima prepares herself for the news, to accept the fact that Gogol will never meet his great-grandmother, the giver of his lost name. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Ashima frets that there will not be enough rice; Gogol and Sonia take people’s coats and put them upstairs, on the guest room bed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Upon returning to Calcutta, Gogol and Sonia both get terribly ill. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z That it was she who had encouraged Gogol to meet Moushumi will be something for which Ashima will always feel guilty. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z And so for the first few months, four- year-old Gogol plays on an uneven, dirt-covered yard littered with stones and sticks, soiling his sneakers, leaving footprints in his path. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She tells Gogol that her husband delights in illusions like these, is consoled by them, whereas she finds them simply to be reminders of what is missing. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She discovers a yam store and begins to knit for the coming winter, making Gogol sweaters, blankets, mittens, and caps. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Most children will grab at one of them, sometimes all of them, but Gogol touches nothing. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The givers and keepers of Gogol’s name are far from him now. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z A time in her life in which he was still Gogol to her, a remnant from her past with little likelihood of appearing in her future. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Maxine drives up from New York, bringing Gogol the clothes he normally keeps at her house, his laptop, his mail. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z His father had never worn the punjabi, and Gogol has to hang it in the bathroom, hot water running in the shower, to get the creases out. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol wonders what it is like for his father to be without his mother and Sonia. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z His father eats with his head bent over his plate, flipping through the latest issue of Time, occasionally glancing at Gogol to make sure he is eating as well. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Some weekends his parents are invited to parties, and they insist that both Gogol and Sonia go with them. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol buys Indian comic books to give to his American friends. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z His parents are distressed by this, but Gogol is secretly pleased to be on his own. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol is only partly attentive to the conversation. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Perhaps,” his father concedes, glancing briefly in Gogol’s direction. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She offers some to Gogol, pulling them out for him one by one. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Years later Gogol had learned the significance, that it was a Bengali son’s duty to shave his head in the wake of a parent’s death. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “What did you think of it?” she asks Gogol, drawing him without warning into the discussion. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She remembers Gogol and Sonia helping her when they were small, Gogol’s hand wrapped around the can of crumbs, Sonia always wanting to eat the croquettes before they’d been breaded and fried. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol lifts the paper slowly, but in spite of this the tape leaves a scab. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol is sent off with a stack of plates, a bunch of forks and knives. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol is unaccustomed to this sort of talk at mealtimes, to the indulgent ritual of the lingering meal, and the pleasant aftermath of bottles and crumbs and empty glasses that clutter the table. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z And suddenly he envisioned “Gogol” added to the list of names, “Nikhil” printed in tiny letters upside down. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The white column of her part, the sight of her bare wrists, pains Gogol when he first catches sight of her. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But Gogol is silent, his rubbings rolled up carefully like parchment in his lap. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol, who had to work the following day because of a project at his firm, had spent the holiday with Maxine’s family in New York. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z For the hours that Gogol is at nursery school, finger-painting and learning the English alphabet, Ashima is despondent, unaccustomed, all over again, to being on her own. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Finish it, Gogol. At your age I ate tin.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol wants to excuse himself, to raise his hand and take a trip to the lavatory, but at the same time he wants to draw as little attention to himself as possible. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Though Jonathan, listening to something his father is saying, doesn’t hear, Gogol feels helpless, annoyed yet unable to blame his mother, caught in the mess he’s made. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She decides to send a card to each of them, shifting the respective name to the top of the card: to her husband’s apartment in Cleveland, to Gogol in New York, adding Maxine’s name, too. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol and Sonia know these people, but they do not feel close to them as their parents do. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z To Gogol’s surprise they are told not to draw the gravestones, but to rub their surfaces. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Is Gogol your first name or your last?” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z A first photograph, somewhat overexposed, is taken by Dr. Gupta that broiling hot, late summer’s day: Gogol, an indistinct blanketed mass, reposing in his weary mother’s arms. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol does not find this observation particularly reassuring. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol and Maxine step out, and he is led by the hand to the back of the house, his limbs stiff from the hours in the car. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Since everything else is suddenly so new, going by a new name doesn’t feel so terribly strange to Gogol. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Of course she likes you,” Jonathan tells Gogol, patiently listening to a minute account of their acquaintance one night in the dining hall. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, no,” Gogol says, shaking his head, laughing, at once insulted and oddly aroused. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z At first Gogol is disappointed by the fact that he can’t play with her, that all she does is sleep and soil her diapers and cry. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol opens the binder on his desk, reluctantly copies the information down. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In history class, Gogol has learned that European immigrants had their names changed at Ellis Island, that slaves renamed themselves once they were emancipated. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Gogol, why aren’t you a member of the Indian association here?” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Without people in the world to call him Gogol, no matter how long he himself lives, Gogol Ganguli will, once and for all, vanish from the lips of loved ones, and so, cease to exist. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol’s life, in a nutshell, was a steady decline into madness. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol had stopped then, thinking that perhaps his father would agree. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He will remain Gogol during holidays and in summer; Gogol will revisit him on each of his birthdays. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He’s been told only half the truth about Gogol: that his father is a fan. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll never keep all these names straight,” he says at one point to Gogol. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It is a view his father would have appreciated, and Gogol is reminded of the many times he had driven with his family, on cold Sunday afternoons, to the sea. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Arranged on the seat beside her is a chocolate brown, shearling-lined suede coat, which is what had caused the person in front of Gogol to move on. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z They were a bit excessive, she tells Gogol with a roll of her eyes, the type to lavish her with perfume and jewels. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The one by Gogol is called “The Overcoat.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She reaches out to Gogol, takes his hand. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Part of the problem is that the people who now know him as Nikhil have no idea that he used to be Gogol. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z They part suddenly, Gogol working up the nerve to ask for her number at the last minute, writing it into the same book where he’d drawn her the floor plan. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The August that Gogol turns five, Ashima discovers she is pregnant again. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z And yet these events have formed Gogol, shaped him, determined who he is. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z There was the disappearance of the name Gogol’s great-grandmother had chosen for him, lost in the mail somewhere between Calcutta and Cambridge. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He watches his father raise a kite within minutes into the wind, so high that Gogol must tip his head back in order to see a rippling speck against the sky. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Hello,” Gerald had said, and then to Gogol, “It’s your sister this time.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He looks at the table of contents, sees Gogol listed after Faulkner, before Hemingway. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She writes that they are saving money for a trip home the following December, after Gogol turns one. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She stands there watching until the rear car disappears into the tunnel, until she and Gogol are the only people remaining on the platform. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Not only is it a perfectly respectable Bengali good name, meaning “he who is entire, encompassing all,” but it also bears a satisfying resemblance to Nikolai, the first name of the Russian Gogol. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Assured by his grades and his apparent indifference to girls, his parents don’t suspect Gogol of being, in his own fumbling way, an American teenager. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But now it is his room at Yale where Gogol feels most comfortable. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z One day, Gogol and Maxine swim over to Hank and Edith’s for lunch, for egg salad sandwiches and canned tomato soup. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z A headpiece that Ashima cut out of paper, decorated with pieces of aluminum foil, is tied around Gogol’s head with string. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol does as he is told, aware that he is touching the everyday possessions of a family he barely knows. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Which is when Gogol announces, “There’s no such thing.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol fidgets with the radio, switching from the AM news station to NPR. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “I can’t believe you kissed her, Gogol,” his friends exclaim as they drive home from the party. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol has never met a person named Abijah, just as, he now realizes, he has never met another Gogol. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He pockets an application for a student American Express card, grateful that his first credit card will not say Gogol in raised letters at the bottom. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol wakes up late on a Sunday morning, alone, from a bad dream he cannot recall. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It’s only that sometimes Gogol wonders whether he represents some sort of capitulation or defeat. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z When his father opens up one of the books to a random page, the print is far smaller than in the Hardy Boys series Gogol has begun recently to enjoy. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol knows that his relatives will stand there until the plane has drifted away, until the flashing lights are no longer visible in the sky. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He feels obligated to attend; one of the presenters on the panel, Amit, is a distant cousin who lives in Bombay, whom Gogol has never met. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Father a small landowner who also wrote plays, died when Gogol was sixteen. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She pushes down the crib railing to comfort Gogol, who has begun stirring as a result of the telephone’s rings, and reviews the facts in her head. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It’s listed, along with the other numbers, under G, both for Ganguli and for Gogol. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol puts on his coat, goes outside and attempts to walk around the pond once. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Until now it has not occurred to Gogol that names die over time, that they perish just as people do. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Every few days she gives Gogol a bath in the porcelain sink in the kitchen. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It still bothers her that neither Gogol nor Sonia had come home for Thanksgiving this year. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol takes a hit, but as he sits there, holding his breath, he regrets it—he is already starved. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z For a moment he rests a hand on Gogol’s shoulder. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Moushumi is invited to give a paper at a conference at the Sorbonne, and they decide to make a vacation out of it, Gogol arranging to take the week off from work. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Unwanted, miscellaneous things are in boxes already: essays written in high school, under the name Gogol. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She picks up Gogol and gets back into bed, under the blanket. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Gogol G,” he signs his work in the lower right-hand corner, as if there were a need to distinguish him from any other Gogol in the school. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol has no hat or gloves, and as they walk he puts his hands into the pockets of his jacket. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z They come to the station to see him off, standing on the platform in the cold, his diminished family, straining but failing to see Gogol, who waves at them through the tinted glass. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Below the sheet, Gogol realizes, his father is unclothed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But after eighteen years of Gogol, two months of Nikhil feel scant, inconsequential. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol accompanies his parents to banks, sits waiting as they sign the endless papers. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The guilt she feels at Gogol’s deflated expression is leavened by common sense. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Hi, Sonali,” Gogol says, sitting stiffly, looking down at her face, and then up at the lens. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But for Gogol, relief quickly replaces any lingering sadness. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z They leave without fanfare, in the middle of the day, when Gogol and Maxine are both at work. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Will you remember this day, Gogol?” his father had asked, turning back to look at him, his hands pressed like earmuffs to either side of his head. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z When Gogol is in the third grade, they send him to Bengali language and culture lessons every other Saturday, held in the home of one of their friends. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He can tell she is nervous, dressed in one of her better saris, wearing lipstick and perfume, in contrast to the khakis and T-shirts and soft leather moccasins Gogol and Maxine both wear. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “No other reason. Good night,” he says to Gogol, getting up from the bed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol knows now that his parents had lived their lives in America in spite of what was missing, with a stamina he fears he does not possess himself. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z His mother and Sonia have gone to India for three weeks, to attend a cousin’s wedding, and this year Gogol and his father will spend Thanksgiving at the home of friends. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z From the bag he’d brought back from the hospital, he saves his father’s wallet, containing forty dollars, three credit cards, a wad of receipts, photographs of Gogol and Sonia when they were babies. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol has been to the house before, a bit too frequendy in his opinion. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Call to let us know you’ve arrived there safely,” his mother says to Gogol in Bengali. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z His father has never given him birthday presents apart from whatever his mother buys, but this year, his father says, walking across the room to where Gogol is sitting, he has something special. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z His legs began to ache halfway there, but his father marched ahead, stopping at times to lend Gogol an arm, his body slightly tilted when he rested on a rock. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Most of Gogol’s toys come from yard sales, as does most of the furniture, and the curtains, and the toaster, and a set of pots and pans. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Right, Baba. Gogol’s your favorite author. I know.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z On the beach Gogol collects rocks, digs tunnels in the sand. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Davenport escorts Gogol in an elevator reserved for patients and doctors, to the subbasement of the hospital. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z They speak of New York, of stores and neighborhoods and buildings they either despise or love, with an intimacy and ease that make Gogol feel as if he barely knows the city. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z As the food reheats, his father tells Gogol to shut the bedroom door because his mother cannot tolerate the smell. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Good-bye, Gogol,” Patty says, planting a quiet kiss on his shoulder, and to Ashima, dressed once again in her wrinkled silk sari, “Good luck.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He thinks of himself at fourteen, his life nothing like it is now, still called Gogol and nothing else. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Both Gogol and Moushumi are absent from these books, and for the first time all evening he feels a hint of that odd bond that had first drawn them together. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z One day in the summer of 1986, in the frantic weeks before moving away from his family, before his freshman year at Yale is about to begin, Gogol Ganguli does the same. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “So that’s why he introduces himself as Nikhil to the girl in the bar, even though she already knows him as Gogol?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Gogol always finds the labels unsettling, the sight of them making him feel that his family doesn’t really live on Pemberton Road. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z More than once, pushing Gogol in his stroller, Ashima has been approached on the streets of Cambridge by young Bengali bachelors, shyly inquiring after her origins. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The rooms are gathered around successive elliptical balconies that can be seen from the lobby, reminding Gogol of a parking garage. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She told Gogol it was because she didn’t have the time, but he sensed that it was something she couldn’t bring herself to face the second time around. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Blades of grass and a pradeep’s slim, steady flame are held to Gogol’s head. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Wake up. Some guy on the train got murdered,” Gogol says to Sonia from his top berth to hers. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It will be Gogol and Sonia’s first journey outside of Calcutta, their first time on an Indian train. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “How do you do. I’m Gerald,” he says, nodding, shaking Gogol’s hand. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In the evenings, until his father came in and pulled out the plug, causing the tiny tree to go dark, Gogol would sit there. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z They were living in Rome the first year that Gogol and Moushumi were together, on a Guggenheim that Astrid had gotten. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z They have never been on a date in their lives and therefore they see no reason to encourage Gogol, certainly not at his age. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol pours himself another juice glass of Chianti. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z As usual, Gogol is the oldest child in the group. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps, Gogol begins to wonder hopefully, Mr. Lawson has no intention of assigning the Gogol story. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol is bored by the panelists, who keep referring to something called “marginality,” as if it were some sort of medical condition. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The day before leaving, Ashima puts Gogol in his stroller, puts the sweater she’d knit for her father and the paintbrushes in a shopping bag, and walks to Harvard Square, to the subway station. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The guidance counselor asks if it’s possible to enroll Gogol in an international school. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But then Gogol flips the record, turning the volume up on “Revolution 1.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The upcoming journey inspires them to try to come up with a good name for Gogol, so they can submit his passport application. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z On Fridays she takes Gogol to the public library for children’s story hour. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol is one, grabbing, walking a little, repeating words in two languages. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Not at all,” his father says eventually, one hand going to his ribs, a habitual gesture that has baffled Gogol until now. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He notices the Lennon obituary pinned to the bulletin board, and then a cassette of classical Indian music he’d bought for Gogol months ago, after a concert at Kresge, still sealed in its wrapper. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z To Gogol’s left, Edith is discussing her reasons for not eating bread. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But now that Sonia is here with Ben, the guest room is theirs, and Gogol is back in his room, with a bed he’s never shared with Moushumi, or with anyone. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But for the rest of the class, Mr. Lawson does not mention Gogol. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z On the plane Gogol is seated several rows behind his parents and Sonia, in another section altogether. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z One day Ashima goes shopping in downtown Boston, spending hours in the basement of Jordan Marsh as she pushes Gogol in his stroller, spending every last penny. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol leans over toward the stereo to turn the volume down a bit. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “It will be a hassle. Gogol has, in effect, become your good name.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He gazes at the man-made pond, which, his father had told Gogol during a phone conversation, he walked around twenty times each evening before eating his dinner, that it equaled a distance of two miles. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t know, Gogol,” his mother had said, shaking her head. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Dingy linoleum and appliances lining a single wall remind Gogol of his former place on Amsterdam Avenue. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol pokes his head into the pot and sees the vongole, their shells uniformly parted in a quietly foaming broth. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Ashima’s eyes fill with tears as Gogol’s mouth eagerly invites the spoon. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Without the sound of the engine Gogol can hear an opera playing faindy on someone’s Walkman. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z There are pictures of Gogol opening up the refrigerator, pretending to talk on the phone. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In the gift shop, Gogol buys a postcard of the house and a ballpoint pen disguised as a quill. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It is nothing like the schooling Gogol’s parents have known, fountain pens and polished black shoes and notebooks and good names and sir or madam at a tender age. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He opens the book, glances at an illustration of Nikolai Gogol, and then at the chronology of the author’s life on the facing page. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Music playing from the different rooms mingles unpleasantly in Gogol’s ears. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The next day Gogol sees his mother sitting in an angled bed, a plastic bracelet around her wrist, her stomach no longer as hard and round. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z And yet Gogol has been dating her for over a year now. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z They get an express passport with “Gogol Ganguli” typed across the United States of America seal, Ashoke signing on his son’s behalf. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes she eats the way Gogol and Sonia do when they visit, standing in front of the refrigerator, not bothering to heat up the food in the oven or to put it on a plate. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z And in that case Nikhil will live on, publicly celebrated, unlike Gogol, purposely hidden, legally diminished, now all but lost. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol gives her a bunch of sunflowers whose massive stems are heavier in his arms than the bottle of wine he’s also brought. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In September, Gogol returns to high school to begin his junior year: honors biology, honors U.S. history, advanced trigonometry, Spanish, honors English. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “I want to see Sesame Street,” Sonia had said, believing that it was an actual landmark in the city, and she had cried when Gogol had laughed at her, saying it didn’t exist. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z This writer he is named after—Gogol isn’t his first name. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol listens, stunned, his eyes fixed on his father’s profile. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The first day of class he had looked up from the podium when he came to Gogol’s name on the roster, an expression of benign amazement on his face. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Not yet. I’ll explain it to her one day. In this country, only your mother knows. And now you. I’ve always meant for you to know, Gogol.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t be scared, Gogol,” he says, raising his son’s chin with his finger. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She visits him infrequently; she and Gogol are never close to his neighborhood for any reason, and even the absolute privacy they would have had there is of no appeal. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Early in January, after holidays they don’t celebrate, in the first days of a year that his father does not live to see, Gogol boards a train and goes back to New York. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He is aware that his parents, and their friends, and the children of their friends, and all his own friends from high school, will never call him anything but Gogol. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Now Gogol raps his knuckles on the window, but the train begins to move as his mother and Sonia are still struggling to spot him. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She pictures the black iron bars in the windows of her parents’ flat, and Gogol, in his American baby clothes and diapers, playing beneath the ceiling fan, on her parents’ four-poster bed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “We tried,” his parents explain to friends and relatives who ask why their son lacks a good name, “but he would only respond to Gogol. The school insisted.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z For by now he is aware, in stores, of cashiers smirking at his parents’ accents, and of salesmen who prefer to direct their conversation to Gogol, as though his parents were either incompetent or deaf. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol speaks to the couple about their plans, promises to come down and have a look at their place before he leaves. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Halfway around is a small private graveyard where members of the Ratliff family lie buried, where Gerald and Gogol always stop to catch their breath. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol is dressed as an infant Bengali groom, in a pale yellow pajama- punjabi from his grandmother in Calcutta. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Though it is from Ashima’s father, no drawings for Gogol adorn the margins, no elephants or parrots or tigers. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The new invitation, designed by Ashima, the English translation lettered by Gogol, is the only thing that isn’t a leftover. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He bends down and this time in Bengali, calmly and quietly, asks Gogol to please answer when Mrs. Lapidus asks a question. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol looks up, sees Mr. Lawson drop his chalk on the blackboard ledge. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She opens a door, and Gogol is introduced to his teacher, Miss Watkins, a woman with hair in two braids, wearing overalls and clogs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He carried a single volume for the journey, a hardbound collection of short stories by Nikolai Gogol, which his grandfather had given him when he’d graduated from class twelve. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Instead of thanking God he thanks Gogol, the Russian writer who had saved his life, when Patty enters the waiting room. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z By now Gogol is just shy of six feet tall, his body slender, his thick brown-black hair slightly in need of a cut. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “It’s confusing to him, too. Plus Gogol is not an Indian name, so he’s like a total outsider, even in his own culture.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z In the airport Gogol stands in the check-in line with his father, who is dressed in a jacket and tie, clothes he still thinks to wear when riding on planes. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She has never read any Gogol herself, but she is willing to place him on a shelf in her mind, along with Tennyson and Wordsworth. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol has nothing to say to these people. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol imagines that it will be a party of hundreds filling up a vast space, the sort of party where he might arrive and leave undetected. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Gogol looks up at the building, wondering which of the apartments is hers, waiting to see if a light will turn on in one of the windows. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But Gogol and Moushumi have nothing to say to each other. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Sonia has gone with Ben to pick up Gogol at the train station. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z As a young boy Gogol doesn’t mind his name. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Other boys his age have begun to court girls already, asking them to go to the movies or the pizza parlor, but he cannot imagine saying, “Hi, it’s Gogol” under potentially romantic circumstances. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Davenport asks Gogol if he’s ready, and then the sheet is replaced, and he is led from the room. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He stands with Gogol in the morgue as a sheet is pulled back to show his father’s face. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z They sit awhile longer, the conversation continuing, Gogol stunned at how easy it is. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Day two acts feature English indie rockers The xx, the Gypsy punk stylings of Gogol Bordello as well as headliners Green Day and French alternative rockers Phoenix. Lady Gaga to Green Day, Lollapalooza boasts motley cast 2010-08-04T21:22:00Z “But someone said something unforgivable about Gogol, and that was the end of it.” Finding His Flock: A Rural Writer’s Book Club 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z And the Seagull Project also went public, with a series at ACT titled “Great Soul of Russia,” which had actors reading from works by such Russian scribes as Dostoevsky, Gogol and poet Anna Akhmatova. Veteran actors launch Chekhov’s ‘The Seagull’ 2013-01-17T22:12:23Z A couple of pages might see the narrative breeze through the Oracle of Delphi, the philosophy of Aristotle, the fiction of Gogol, and the essays of Montaigne. Anatomies: The Human Body, Its Parts and the Stories They Tell by Hugh Aldersey-Williams – review 2013-02-28T08:00:01Z The pair had recently made out after a night out at the hip club Razzmatazz, and Joel was feeling bold enough to share a favorite novel by Nikolai Gogol. Why the Outfield’s “Your Love” is the perfect summer song 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z Jascha is an acclaimed writer, often compared with Kafka and Gogol, having made his reputation with a surreal novel about his wartime experiences called “The Way Down.” Book World: ‘The Train to Warsaw’ by Gwen Edelman Gogol tells this baffling tale with disarming simplicity. Music Review | ?The Nose?: Picture This: A Nose Goes Missing 2010-03-07T00:53:00Z United by a doomed Gogol adaptation, they first made eyes at each other while miming suicides. When Life’s a Crazy Mess, Try Going Onstage 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z Rush plays a lowly civil servant driven mad in the darkly comic play, adapted from an 1853 short story by novelist Nikolai Gogol. Geoffrey Rush to go mad on stage again in 'Diary' 2011-01-10T21:50:30Z Consequently, Belknap probes Tolstoy’s moralistic criticisms of Shakespeare and charts the influence of Gogol on Dostoevsky. ‘Meanwhile, back at the ranch’ and other storytelling tricks explained in ‘Plots’ 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z It was Gogol, of course, and not Kafka who wrote the absurdist short story “The Nose,” about a man whose nose leaves his face and takes on a life of its own. The Kafka You Never Knew 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z I enjoyed Mark Twain’s “Life on the Mississippi” and Nikolai Gogol’s “The Nose,” as well as Ernest Hemingway’s writing. In the Cultural Revolution, Ai Weiwei’s Father Burned the Family’s Books 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z Then I entered my months of Gogol, in Bulgakov’s honor, which led me to read Nabokov’s “Gogol,” which led me to another favorite book, “Nabokov’s Butterflies.” How Susan Sontag Influenced Patti Smith’s Reading Life 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z "I would be very tempted to mention Gogol, Kafka and Orwell at this moment," she said. Pussy Riot member denied appeal 2013-01-17T11:47:14Z Whether this version of Gogol’s tale will inspire fear — or any deeper emotions — is another matter. | 'Diary of a Madman': Send in the Russian Clown and His Pain and Alienation, Too 2011-02-18T00:36:24Z Gogol’s play ends with its characters put right as to their ignorance, though not necessarily any the wiser for it. Theater: Onstage, British Bile and Russian Satire 2011-06-14T11:30:06Z The Portrait, based on a short story by Gogol, was composed in 1980 and is a satire on greed, much like Shostakovich's own Gogol opera The Nose. This week's new live music 2011-01-29T00:06:06Z Machado's literary mapping of Rio reaches back to the St Petersburg of Gogol and Dostoevsky, and anticipates the Dublin of Joyce. A brief survey of the short story part 47: Machado 2013-03-01T15:28:24Z His apartment and the Gogol Center, the theater where he is the artistic director, were searched in a case widely condemned as being politically motivated. Bolshoi Denies Gay Theme Forced Postponing of Nureyev Ballet 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z Serebrennikov, art director at Moscow's avant-garde Gogol Centre theater, denies wrongdoing. Prominent Russian theater director detained in embezzlement case 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z As with a writer such as Gogol, an émigré to Italy whom Fellini liked to bring up, these dream notes are integral to his whole perspective. Fellini’s “City of Women” 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z Nikolai Gogol's story of matchmaking, Marriage, opens at the Belgrade in Coventry tomorrow. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-02-01T16:28:58Z This analysis of the art of writing, conducted through a close analysis of seven classic Russian short stories — by Chekhov and Turgenev, Tolstoy and Gogol — emerges from a longtime course Saunders teaches at Syracuse University. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z In addition to “Interns,” Mr. Biron is starring in a sold-out production of Gogol’s “Dead Souls” at the Gogol Center, a well-regarded avant-garde theater. After ‘Interns’ Star Came Out in Russia, a Mix of Fury and Shrugs 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Who are your literary heroes?I've had many: Gogol, Beckett, Maupassant, Heinrich von Kleist, Kafka, Mark Twain, all the Roths I can think of but especially Joseph Roth, and of course Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. The Man Booker International prize finalists speak: Part Two 2013-05-15T10:31:24Z Artistically, party as a vehicle for positive change is definitely something that Gogol Bordello carries on. Gogol Bordello, Rick Rubin team up for "Hustle" 2010-04-28T00:10:00Z It's at the Sherman in Cardiff, where at the end of the week you can also catch Living Pictures' Gogol adaption, Diary of a Madman. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-05-17T14:35:33Z One could do worse than to read Gogol, whose absurdist short story “The Nose” could help Mr. Snowden understand that living in Russia might not make any more sense than living in the United States. ArtsBeat: Russia for Beginners: A Literary Course for Edward Snowden 2013-07-25T23:16:45Z Gogol made marks on a page one day, and they turned out to represent Medji and Fidele, from "Diary of a Madman", two little dogs who meet in the street outside a shop. It's a dog's life 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z Or like Gogol at the end of his life, he wrote prolifically but then burned it all. 2010-01-29T13:57:00Z Nabokov is particularly good at capturing the humorist in Gogol, a writer often misinterpreted as a kind of Russian Dickens. New & Noteworthy 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Gogol's nasal fixation is given full play in The Nose, in which a minor government official wakes up to find only a smooth patch of skin between his eyes and his mouth. The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol – review 2012-06-16T23:05:29Z The unorthodox subject matter, derived from a story by Nikolai Gogol and redolent of the writer’s uniquely Russian brand of humor, may formerly have kept theaters at bay but no more. Opera Review: 'The Nose' Pared Down to Its Essentials 2011-09-27T10:47:47Z “American Innovations” suggests Nikolai Gogol’s “The Nose” by way of Philip Roth’s “The Breast.” Books of The Times: ‘American Innovations’ by Rivka Galchen 2014-05-07T20:15:28Z Also at the Sherman: Gogol's Diary of a Madman in a production by Living Pictures which later in the week moves to the Torch at Milford Haven. Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-05-24T12:35:00Z Born in Ukraine — then a colony dubbed “Little Russia” — Gogol began writing stories while pursuing a short-lived government career in St. Petersburg. The Russian Comic Writer Who’s an Antidote to Mad Times 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Gogol doesn't ignore the conventions of realism, but, rather, jumbles them up, as in a dream. The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol – review 2012-06-16T23:05:29Z American Recordings senior vice president and general manager Dino Paradis draws a parallel between the reactions to Gogol Bordello with those he recalls from when the label signed Armenian hard-rock band System of a Down. Gogol Bordello, Rick Rubin team up for "Hustle" 2010-04-28T00:10:00Z This was and is a visionary nonfiction epic written by an artist in the Russian Orthodox, old-regime tradition of Gogol, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. Martin Amis on Lenin’s Deadly Revolution 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z The acclaimed writer pairs these essays with short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy and Gogol to offer a master class in the mechanics of fiction. New in Paperback: Helen Oyeyemi and George Saunders 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Tolstoy, Gogol and Chekhov believed in many different things, but, most consistently of all, they believed in storytelling and the fine resources of the fiction-maker's art. It's a dog's life 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z As the band warmed the stage for gypsy rockers Gogol Bordello on Friday at the 9:30 Club, it started its set with what sounded like a spooky vaudevillian organ. Chicano Batman wins over crowds with unique, psychedelic sound 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z Serebrennikov, art director at Moscow’s avant-garde Gogol Center theater, faces up to 10 years in jail if found guilty. Russian theater director who irked establishment given house arrest 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Rubin views the relationship as the beginning of an entirely new approach to recording for Gogol Bordello. Gogol Bordello, Rick Rubin team up for "Hustle" 2010-04-28T00:10:00Z Major recent commissions have included a multifaith Requiem to commemorate the destruction of Dresden; a piece for the Rascher Saxophone Quartet and women’s choir; and “Gogol,” a three-act opera set to her own libretto. ‘The Blind,’ Lera Auerbach’s Opera, Confronts Isolation 2013-07-05T17:16:44Z But Saramago denied there was an influence and said old masters like Spain's Miguel de Cervantes and Russia's Nikolai Gogol impressed him more. Nobel-winning Portuguese author Saramago dies at 87 2010-06-19T02:24:00Z Help you starve yourself to death like Gogol or something.” Literary Brooklyn Gets Its Leading Man 2012-06-22T20:21:18Z Gogol, the factory’s mustached chief economist, has a weakness for drink, hitting the cognac on set before morning filming begins. A Russian Writer’s Lessons for Being a Nobody While Being Yourself 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z I do turn to the Russians a lot – Dostoevsky, Gogol, Lermontov. Britain's cultural debutantes 2011-01-16T00:04:11Z He has a kind of gaze that can freeze you at times, but he also has a pretty good sense of humor, very sardonic, Russian sense of humor, something out of Gogol. Alex Gibney on "Citizen K": Real-life thriller of an oligarch who turned against Vladimir Putin 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z There's a tangible chill in the weather and the politics of both poem and story, and both have a ghost, but I'm reminded less of Gogol than of Philip Larkin in "The Whitsun Weddings". Poem of the week: The Overcoat by Peter McDonald 2013-04-15T09:51:10Z My favorite sections are the chapters from the point of view of Gladman’s parrot, Gogol, which manages a very convincing, sublimely comic and heartbreaking evocation of a bird’s perspective. Heard the One About the Hole That Swallowed Part of Chicago? 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z It's also the base of operations for Byron's tech company Gogol – yes, like Google – which manufactures an array of devices and employs a cadre of sycophants. Dark comedy "Made for Love" is HBO Max's "Black Mirror"-lite tale of bad romance turned sociopathic 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Gogol's Marriage continues at the Belgrade in Coventry. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-02-08T15:48:00Z Shostakovich’s “Nose,” after the Gogol short story, is staged by the South African artist William Kentridge; it will receive its European premiere following its 2010 triumph at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Music: Europe's Operatic Summer 2011-07-01T12:30:07Z This Russian novel riffs on Gogol and on post-Soviet masculinity; its hero wakes up missing something more delicate than his nose. New & Noteworthy, From Russian Satire to the Comet Apocalypse 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z Living Pictures' adaptation of Gogol's Diary of a Madman is at Pontardawe Arts Centre tonight and the Taliesin in Swansea on Thursday. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-06-07T16:06:29Z Gogol Bordello are feted by Madonna and the mainstream while a dozen British-based bands on the gypsy punk tip are met with complete indifference. Forget Florence ? meet the real stars of the festival scene 2010-06-18T11:20:00Z He’s celebrated as a literary heir to giants like Turgenev, Gogol and Nabokov, but at times, he’s questioned the value of literature, dismissing novels as “just paper with typographic signs.” He Envisioned a Nightmarish, Dystopian Russia. Now He Fears Living in One. 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z Serebrennikov, art director at Moscow’s avant-garde Gogol Center theater, faces up to 10 years in jail if found guilty. Russian theater director who irked establishment given house arrest 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Wilson writes: "Turgenev is a master of language, he is interested in words in a way that the other great 19th-century Russian novelists – with the exception of Gogol – are not." A brief survey of the short story part 50: Ivan Turgenev 2013-06-21T13:42:13Z After a few months, I began to listen: we read Gogol’s “The Overcoat,” and I liked it from the first page. A Brief History of Death 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z It also aims for the trenchant political wit of Tom Stoppard in his “Rock ‘n’ Roll” mode, and Gogol’s blithe way with bureaucratic satire. Review: Real Russians and Fake News in ‘Describe the Night’ 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Fortune says that if Cutler had been born in Eastern Europe he would have been taken a bit more seriously as an artist, like Nikolai Gogol or one of the "absurd" Russians. The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Cutler 2014-03-31T23:04:52Z He then began more than 40 years of directing plays by Shakespeare, Molière, Goethe, Chekhov, Gogol and Dylan Thomas, as well as musicals and operas. Michael Bogdanov, Shakespearean Stage Director, Dies at 78 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Vladimir Nabokov’s book on Gogol describes the character more pithily: He is “a soap bubble blown by the devil.” The Russian Comic Writer Who’s an Antidote to Mad Times 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z For the Gogol comedy, the mode is explosive surrealism. Critic?s Notebook: A Dizzying Sense of Reality on London?s Stages 2011-07-11T15:09:46Z “I cannot say more than what Gogol said: ‘Do your job as if it were an order from God.’ ” Yuri Lyubimov, Experimental Stage Director, Dies at 97 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z In May, Russian investigators searched the home and office of Serebrennikov, the art director of the Gogol Centre theater, and questioned him as a witness in a criminal investigation into alleged embezzlement of state funds. Russia's Bolshoi calls off premiere of Nureyev ballet 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z Serebrennikov, art director at Moscow's avant-garde Gogol Center theater, faces up to 10 years in jail if found guilty. Russian celebrities gather outside Moscow court to demand director's release 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z The Government Inspector New adaptation of Gogol’s satire about corruption in czarist Russia; for ages 12 and up. The week ahead in L.A. theater, Oct. 15-22: 'Bright Star,' 'In the Heights' and more 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z Bellow observed that the Soviet leader’s comic style seemed to have been adapted from the “provincial autocrats, creeps, misers, officials, gluttons, gamblers and drunkards” in Gogol’s “Dead Souls.” Review: Revisiting Saul Bellow’s Words, on Society, Chicago and Other Writers 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z Seven essays on stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy and Gogol; adapted from a class Saunders teaches at Syracuse University. New & Noteworthy, From Russian Satire to the Comet Apocalypse 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z Someone like Bellow probably had other ambitions, Roth writes, “inspired by your European masters, by Dostoyevsky, Gogol, Proust, Kafka, and such ambitions don’t include writing about the neighbors gabbing on the back porch.” The Sympathetic Spy Downstairs 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z We all read Chekhov and Gogol and Dostoyevsky and all the giants; we read them in translation, and it was coherent for us, and it acted upon us. Man Booker Winners Agree: Translating Jokes Is Hard 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Gogol’s “Dead Souls” had escaped me — or, rather, I’d started and stopped reading several times, perhaps unable to reconcile the style with that of beloved short stories, like “The Nose.” How Jeff VanderMeer Prevents Writer’s Block 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z In 2010, in a momentous company debut, he directed a dazzling, frenetic production of Shostakovich’s wildly satirical opera “The Nose,” based on a Gogol short story. Review: A Masterful ‘Lulu’ at the Met 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z “The Government Inspector,” an adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s ageless comedy of small town venality, earns its final guffaws. What’s New in NYC Theater 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Serebrennikov, art director at Moscow's avant-garde Gogol Center theater, faces up to 10 years in jail if found guilty. Russian celebrities gather outside Moscow court to demand director's release 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Serebrennikov, art director at Moscow's avant-garde Gogol Centre theater, denies wrongdoing. Prominent Russian theater director detained in embezzlement case 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z The new book emerges from his longtime course on the 19th-century Russian short story — on Chekhov and Turgenev, Tolstoy and Gogol. George Saunders Conducts a Cheery Class on Fiction’s Possibilities 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z When confronted, my husband cheated and claimed to be for Nikolai Gogol, but later admitted to being partial to Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky vs. Tolstoy: One Family’s Competitive Vacation in Russia 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z Gogol’s Kovalyov, whose nose detaches itself from his face and wanders around St. Petersburg, would also feel at home. Essay: Gabriel García Márquez’s Work Was Rooted in the Real 2014-04-21T18:37:38Z Sullivan raised the ante with a conceit lifted from Nikolai Gogol’s classic comedy “The Inspector General.” Seattle Rep mounts redo of ‘Inspecting Carol’ romp | Theater review 2012-11-30T23:03:22Z The Gogol story is a bizarre tale of a petty bureaucrat who is swept along in the officious chaos, class conflicts and absurdity of St. Petersburg society. ?The Nose,? and the Eye and the Ear, at Metropolitan Opera 2010-03-11T19:52:00Z Just Gogol alone…I mean, whatever language “The Overcoat” was written in, that is a language I want to learn. Shakespeare in Klingon: Literature in the Original and My Total Failure to Read It That Way 2012-11-28T16:30:53Z Early on he watches violence erupt as people fight to get their hands on the latest Gogol release, only to lament that there weren't more injuries. Dark comedy "Made for Love" is HBO Max's "Black Mirror"-lite tale of bad romance turned sociopathic 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Gogol was a contemporary of these writers, but his fiction speaks even more to our growing disenchantment with their ambivalent bequest. The Russian Comic Writer Who’s an Antidote to Mad Times 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z “The Diary of a Madman” was the only work of fiction that Gogol wrote in the first person. | 'Diary of a Madman': Send in the Russian Clown and His Pain and Alienation, Too 2011-02-18T00:36:24Z For those who don't know the story, Dostoevsky's first novel Poor Folk was passed before publication to a legendary critic/blowhard called Vissarion Belinsky who promptly declared that Dostoevsky was the heir to Gogol. Has any author's reputation fallen further or faster than Dostoevsky's? 2010-09-24T15:14:00Z The starting point for this latest show, for instance, combines Gogol's short story The Nose and the set design for a modernist opera. This week's new exhibitions 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z But he works in a wide variety of media - putting his drawings on stage amid a polyphony of keyboards and brass curious instruments salvaged from antique shops, and text from Shakespeare to Gogol. Artist William Kentridge on stage in South Africa 2011-09-17T12:29:12Z Gypsy fiddle replaced synthesizer, and party-hearty spirit took over, as Eugene Hutz and other members of Gogol Bordello romped through “Breaking Glass.” Review: Remembering David Bowie, With One Artist and One Song at a Time 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z |
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