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Nikolai Gogol


Born
in Sorochyntsi, Poltava guberniya, Russian Empire
April 01, 1809

Died
February 21, 1852

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People consider that Russian writer Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (Николай Васильевич Гоголь) founded realism in Russian literature. His works include The Overcoat (1842) and Dead Souls (1842).

Ukrainian birth, heritage, and upbringing of Gogol influenced many of his written works among the most beloved in the tradition of Russian-language literature. Most critics see Gogol as the first Russian realist. His biting satire, comic realism, and descriptions of Russian provincials and petty bureaucrats influenced later Russian masters Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, and especially Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Gogol wittily said many later Russian maxims.

Gogol first used the techniques of surrealism and the grotesque in his works The Nose , Viy ,
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Dead Souls

3.98 avg rating — 95,990 ratings — published 1842 — 13 editions
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The Overcoat

4.15 avg rating — 51,145 ratings — published 1842 — 450 editions
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Diary of a Madman and Other...

4.07 avg rating — 22,313 ratings — published 1835 — 3 editions
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The Inspector General

3.96 avg rating — 19,285 ratings — published 1835
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The Nose (Penguin Little Bl...

3.71 avg rating — 18,072 ratings — published 1836 — 10 editions
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The Collected Tales of Niko...

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Village Evenings Near Dikan...

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Taras Bulba

3.73 avg rating — 14,481 ratings — published 1835
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The Overcoat and Other Shor...

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I racconti di Pietroburgo

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Quotes by Nikolai Gogol  (?)
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“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
Nikolai V. Gogol

“I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.”
Nikolai Gogol

“However stupid a fool's words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.”
Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

Polls

January 2017 Old School Classic Poll

Ivanhoe by Walter Scott, 544 pages, 1819
 
  54 votes, 23.5%

 
  45 votes, 19.6%

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, 464 pages, 1842
 
  38 votes, 16.5%

 
  26 votes, 11.3%

 
  24 votes, 10.4%

Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac, 200 pages, 1833
 
  15 votes, 6.5%

The Red and the Black by Stendhal, 608 pages, 1830
 
  13 votes, 5.7%

Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov, 567 pages, 1859
 
  9 votes, 3.9%

 
  6 votes, 2.6%

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