![]() The narrator revels in the delights of the street, but he is filled with Poshlost, (defined by literary historian D. Petersburg, and its population at different times of the day. The introduction describes Nevsky Prospekt, the central avenue of St. ![]() ![]() The story closes with the narrator once more speaking generally of Nevsky Prospekt. ![]() The first story follows the romantic hero, the second follows his realistic foil. The story is organized symmetrically the narrator describes Nevsky Prospekt in great detail, then the plot splits to follow in turn two acquaintances, each of whom follows a beautiful woman whom he has seen on the street. Influenced strongly by the sentimental movement, the protagonist of "Nevsky Prospekt" is a pathetic and insignificant romantic, the narrator is chatty and unreliable (along the lines of Tristram Shandy, the definitive sentimental novel), and realism dominates. " Nevsky Prospekt" ( Russian: Невский Проспект) is a short story by Nikolai Gogol, written between 18 and published in the collection Arabesques in 1835. Dmitry Kardovsky's illustration for the 1904 edition. ![]()
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