Word: gogol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wednesday, January 16 Russians: Self-Impressions (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* In dramatizations from the works of great Russian writers (Chekhov, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Pasternak), a cast including Jo Van Fleet, Kim Hunter and Sam Wanamaker attempts to give insights into the Russian character...
...loneliness of Kafka and his characters misleads Politzer in his conclusion that Kafka stands alone in literature too. He pays little attention to the insights Kafka gained from Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Gogol and Poe, still less to the enormous influence of Kafka on such writers as Robbe-Grillet, Camus and Sartre. In a final chapter that judges Kafka against Camus (unfairly, and at Camus's great expense), he notes the obvious distinctions in the work of two writers often compared: what Camus says in Olympian detachment, Kafka says in nervous excitement ; where Camus needs crisis to show...
Desperate Russian critics, trying hard to pigeonhole my own novels, have once or twice linked me up with Gogol, but when they looked again I had untied the knots and the box was empty...
Black Sunday (Galatea-Jolly; Al), for instance, is a piece of fine Italian handiwork that atones for its ludicrous lapses with brilliant intuitions of the spectral. Taken from a tale (Fry) by Nikolai Gogol, Black Sunday tells the story of a female demon who once every century rises from a moldy old Moldavian crypt to terrorize the countryside. Director Mario Bava makes subtle use of a Gothic setting-much of the film was shot in a medieval Italian castle-to enhance the Gothic mood. One shot is pure black magic. The vampire's coach, black as a hearse...
...joys of space. Sunshine flooded his cabin. "I saw with my own eyes that the earth was a sphere. Blue coronas on the horizons were really indescribably beautiful. The stars seemed brighter. The spaceship seemed to be standing still and the moon floating by," he rhapsodized, quoting Gogol's "dark sky over which the moon floats." Then he added: "The cosmos awaits the painters and poets...