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Nikolai Gogol


Born
in Sorochyntsi, Poltava guberniya, Russian Empire
March 31, 1809

Died
March 04, 1852

Genre
Classics, Satire, Fantasy

Influences
Alexander Pushkin, Miguel de Cervantes, Ukrainian Folklore, Dymytrii T ...more


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 , ...more

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Average rating: 4.02 · 279,316 ratings · 15,217 reviews · 1,564 distinct works • Similar authors
Dead Souls
3.98 avg rating — 80,260 ratings — published 1842 — 2392 editions
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The Overcoat
4.15 avg rating — 39,126 ratings — published 1842 — 429 editions
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The Collected Tales of Niko...
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4.35 avg rating — 14,480 ratings — published 1835 — 49 editions
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The Inspector General
3.98 avg rating — 15,535 ratings — published 1835 — 507 editions
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The Overcoat and Other Shor...
4.20 avg rating — 11,577 ratings — published 1836 — 184 editions
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Taras Bulba
3.72 avg rating — 11,953 ratings — published 1835 — 754 editions
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Diary of a Madman and Other...
4.12 avg rating — 10,783 ratings — published 1842 — 68 editions
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الأنف
3.67 avg rating — 6,250 ratings — published 1836 — 428 editions
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Diary of a Madman
3.85 avg rating — 5,427 ratings — published 1835 — 280 editions
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“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
― Nikolai V. Gogol
tags: humor, sadness
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“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
tags: gogol, heroes, laughter, life, nikolai, tears
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“I am who I am and that's who I am”
― Nikolai Gogol, in The Government Inspector presented by the EGBA and performed by the ORAD
tags: humour, reality
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