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Gogol as a dualist

Poprischin's madness is triggered by the fact that the woman he is in love with is of a higher rank than him and this brings about a crisis of his own self worth.
             As aforementioned, Gogol writes in a first person narrative and this helps to draw the reader into believing the realism of the story. The story is written in the form of diary entries, which are highly personal and offer a daily account of Poprischin's life. Once the dates in the diary become nonsensical the reader is able to fully understand the depth of Poprischin's encroaching madness. Poprischin,.
             "projects a re-awakened sense of his own inferiority onto the dogs: the faithful' dog reproaches the dog of his mistress with Poprischin's own failure: that of communication- .
             Diary of A Madman is a metatextual piece of work- it is a book that is concerned mainly with writing and one of the more humorous episodes in the book is where Poprischin begins to critique the letters from the dogs. .
             The use of the absurd in this book provokes sympathy for the character and Gogol enjoys playing with his reader's emotions. The last line of the book flips the readers' emotions from pathos to the absurd:.
             "And did you know that the Dhey of Algiers has a wart right under his .
             nose?- .
             In Diary of a Madman Gogol demonstrates his ability to skilfully play with the emotions of the readers. This book is a prime example of Gogol's fondness for a dualistic setting; the book is both comical and painful to read- and the reader is drawn from laughter to tears and back again. It teases the reader with its glimpses of dreams, ideals and then draws them sharply back to a terrible reality.
             When his short story The Nose was published in Pushkin's journal The Contempary in 1836 it had already been rejected from the Moscow Observer on grounds of filth and triviality. It received various reviews: some claiming it as a psychoanalytical novel, others claiming it was merely a work of pure nonsense- a literary joke.


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