期刊名称：Nota Bene : Canadian Undergraduate Journal of Musicology
印刷版ISSN：1920-8979
电子版ISSN：1920-8987
出版年度：2011
卷号：4
期号：1
出版社：University of Western Ontario
摘要：He is balding, short, pockmarked, and in possession of an extremely worn out overcoat. Despite his colleagues’ constant ridicule, he delights in his office work and keeps to himself and his simple life in the evening: an unlikely hero, perhaps, but not an unlikeable fellow. He is Akakii Akakiievich, the petty government clerk of Russian author Nikolai Gogol’s short story “The Overcoat”, and a famous representative of a broader type in Russian literature: the “little man.”1 Ordinary and oppressed, this type of character functions as a contrast to and victim of an unjust system.2 1 George Gibian, ed., The Portable 19th Century Russian Reader. (New York: Penguin, 1993), 202-232. The system is not only unfair but fatal: in Gogol’s story, Akakii Akakiievich’s death is the result of negligence on
