How interesting! I interpreted the last part as not so much an authorial reflection from Gogol himself but as a reflection from the somewhat wonky narrator who’s been with us since the beginning of the story. In a way i feel like the text didn’t break out of the fourth wall but remained within it walls with a comical self awareness.
Oh I think I agree with that! In the sense that he didn’t loose the tone of his narration and yet, he managed to introduce a reflection that points outside of the story. Even if the fourth wall has been kept through the continuity of his narrative style, it does give us at least a glance at the joke that is writing such story.
How interesting! I interpreted the last part as not so much an authorial reflection from Gogol himself but as a reflection from the somewhat wonky narrator who’s been with us since the beginning of the story. In a way i feel like the text didn’t break out of the fourth wall but remained within it walls with a comical self awareness.
Oh I think I agree with that! In the sense that he didn’t loose the tone of his narration and yet, he managed to introduce a reflection that points outside of the story. Even if the fourth wall has been kept through the continuity of his narrative style, it does give us at least a glance at the joke that is writing such story.