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Wednesday, April 21. 1954 University Daily Kansan
Page 3
Professor Reviews Novel by Gogol
By AMY De YONG
The artist achieved perfection by burning the imperfect design in a blaze of integrity and despair, Vladimir Nabokov, professor of Russian literature at Cornell university, told the fifth Humanities lecture audience last night.
The former Russian nobleman who has written numerous books, short stories, and sketches reviewed Nikolai Gogol's book, "Dead Souls," and introduced the audience to the author's personality and literary techniques. "Gogol's real plot is always in his style," the lecturer said, which is characterized by "a complicated maneuver executed by the sentence which makes of Gogol a magician."
"With this book Gogol lived and traveled all his life, and it is his greatest work," Prof. Nabokov said of *Feud Souls*. The tale of the "chumby, glossy - cheeked Chichikoff" who attempted to buy "dead souls" (deceased peasants) from five land owners, is set in a provincial town in southern Russia.
"Land owners could buy and sell peasants," the lecturer explained, and these persons were called souls, for whom a poll tax was paid to the government. Even a dead soul' was still "alive on paper," as the owner was required to pay for him until a new census was made. he said.
Chichikoff planned to accumulate "dead souls," the professor said, and after paying the tax, he intended to mortgage them as "good live souls," reaping such profits as the privilege of getting land free, which was possible for one who owned souls.
The character is "a rolling stone gathering ghostly moss." Prof. Nabokov said, but "the socially minded critics who saw in 'Dead Souls' a condemnation missed the true point."
"The imaginative surroundings and conditions are perfectly unimportsalt," the lecturer said, adding that "the gusto and wealth of weird detail lift the work to an epic poem." The grotesque names, he said, were in keeping with the influence of Charles Dickens, and the work related back to "Don Quixote," to the medieval romance of chivalry, and to Homer and the Greeks.
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Gogol's technique, the professor said, consisted especially of introducing a number of characters for a moment, and showing "even more silent, remote characters behind the story in the course of extended comparisons." The reader must turn a "mental somersault to get rid of conventional literary values." Prof. Nabokov said, in order to follow the author's "superhuman imagination" to the "magic chaos."
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"A slightly haunted expression" can be seen in an old daguerrotype of Gogol, Prof. Nabokov said. He described the appearance of the author and sketched his life, including a mention of his early works. These were local color stories of his native Ukrainian area, which the speaker said were "trifles, though amusing."
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Gogol traveled in search of an ending to "Dead Souls," Prof. Nabokov said, and died in 1852, "stubbornly brooding over a sequel." In attempt to please a priest who had begged him to give up literature, Gogol tried to reform his characters, the lecturer said, but "when the good characters appear, they are perfect strangers. No real retribution is possible without distortion, and the good people are false," he explained.
Describing the chief character of the tale, the lecturer called him a "creature of Gogol's special brand. The rusty chink in his armor." Prof. Nabokov said, "is his essential stupidity. The criminal is always a fool," he continued, "and Chichikoff is doomed from the start." He mentioned the passage in which the character reters to himself as a "despicable worm."
Phillips Talbot, director of the American Universities, Field staff, who leaves the University today after a two-day visit surveying the operations of the AUFS program here, described his work as "a very exciting educational experience."
AUFS Chief Enjoys Education Work
"In view of American interests, concerns, and responsibilities," Mr. Talbot said, "the AUFS was formed to aid the American educational system in the diffusion of knowledge necessary to a better understanding of world conditions." The University was one of the group of universities and colleges which three years ago founded and now sponsor the AUFS program.
The corps of men who "study at first hand the contemporaneous affairs of significant areas of the world" become, in Mr. Talbot's opinion, "attached to the universities at which they lecture, and will write
Telfel Supervises Lincoln Workshop
For the third straight year, Emil L. Telfel, associate professor of journalism, will supervise the newspaper workshop for high school students at the sixth annual Headliner week of the journalism school at Lincoln university in Jefferson City, Mo., today through Saturday. Saturday.
About 150 students from all parts of the United States will attend workshops on the newspaper, the yearbook, and photography, Mr. Telfel said.
The photography workshop will be supervised by Lee S. Cole, instructor in the William Allen White School of Journalism from 1945 to 1950, and now an associate professor at Lincoln university.
The yearbook workshop will be directed by Fred L. Kildow, associate professor in the journalism school of the University of Minnesota.
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for the universities' information." From his offices in New York, Mr. Talbot said he keeps in touch with the member universities, finds new staff members for the program, and acts as a clearing-house for the exchange of ideas between campuses.
"One of the features of the program at KU." he said. "is the way in which the field staff has been used in a number of different departments at a number of different levels."
Graduated from the University of Illinois with A.B. and B.S.J. degrees,
Mr. Talbot was a member of the Chicago Daily News staff from 1936-38. In 1938 he began graduate studies in London and India under the auspices of the Institute of Current World Affairs, and he served for two years as a Naval liaison officer in Bombay.
After the close of World War II the director became a member of the Chicago Daily News foreign services. He taught political science at the University of Chicago from 1948-50 before taking his present position.
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