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and this prose is the first thing that strikes the reader in it. It is not so much Bely, however, as Gogol reflected in Bely, but it is always on Gogol's highest level, which is seldom the case with Gogol himself. The Silver Dove is somewhat alone also in being the one of Bely's novels which has most human interest in it, where the tragedy is in fectious and not merely puckishly ornamental... The novel contains much more narrative interest than most
Russian novels do. It has a complicated and excellently disentangled plot. The characters are vivid like Gogol's, characterized largely by their physical features the dialogue, alive and expressive. But what is perhaps especially wonderful are the evocations of Nature, full of intense suggestiveness and pregnant poetry. The feeling of the monotonous and endless expanse of the Russian plain pervades the book. All this, together with the splendidly ornamental style, makes
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