Tales from Babushka's Bookshelf

The final part of Kim's 2016 text, which asks after the place of home within one's understanding of self.

Please forgive my pronunciation errors!

Recorded under the fair use policy.

In our second episode we think about fraud, in both thematic and formal terms. We interrogate the generic singularities of two of Gogol's best loved works and think more about language and its role in deception.

The first of our episodes on the rascal, rogue and genius of Russian literature, Nikolai "The Nose" Gogol. Here we look at his first critically acclaimed work, a collection of tales inspired by his native Ukraine.