Gogol's Art by Laszlo Tikos and Russian Literature

by Richard Seltzer

This CD contains Gogol's a Search for Identity by Laszlo Tikos -- the best book ever written about Russia's most enigmatic and intriguing author, together with the full-text of works by Gogol and other great Russian writers, and works about Russian history. Nikolay V. Gogol (1809-1852), created a new direction in Russian letters, which was further developed in the 19th century by writers like Dostoyevsky and Rozanov, and in the 20th century by Bely, Bulgakov and Sinyavsky. Intended for use on Windows PCs, Gogol's Art is presented in html (Web) format, to allow links from the text to related footnotes. The other books on this CD are in plain text format -- easy to read, to print, and to search. Laszlo Tikos is professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. A native of Hungary, he studied at the University of Debrecen (Hungary) 1950-54, from where he received an MA in Russian Language and Literature. He was forced to leave Hungary after the 1956 uprising, and escaped to West Germany. He studied at the Universities of Tuebingen and Munich, and received his Ph.D. from Tuebingen in 1961. Since 1962 he and his family have been living in the United States. The works of Gogol on this CD Dead Souls, Taras Bulba, The Inspector General, and St. John's Eve Other Russian authors Dostoeyevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Pushkin, Turgenev, Andreyev, Gorky, Kuprin, and Lermontov. Plus the full text of two "Country Studies" -- Russia and Belarus (birthplace of Gogol) , which were originally published as printed books by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress between 1987 and 1995 under a program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Army. Each country study is presented as a single document, plain text form -- easy to read, to print, and to search (rather than as a collection of over 100 separate documents for each book, that you could find on the Web).

1 pages, CD-ROM

First published March 28, 2003