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Nikolai Gogol


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

Died
February 21, 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: 4.01 · 352,296 ratings · 22,079 reviews · 2,001 distinct works • Similar authors
Dead Souls
3.98 avg rating — 96,302 ratings — published 1842 — 57 editions
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The Overcoat
4.14 avg rating — 51,401 ratings — published 1842 — 2 editions
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Diary of a Madman and Other...
4.07 avg rating — 22,413 ratings — published 1835 — 489 editions
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The Inspector General
3.96 avg rating — 19,376 ratings — published 1835 — 3 editions
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The Nose (Penguin Little Bl...
3.71 avg rating — 18,288 ratings — published 1836 — 440 editions
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The Collected Tales of Niko...
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4.35 avg rating — 15,340 ratings — published 1835 — 46 editions
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Village Evenings Near Dikan...
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Taras Bulba
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Series 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
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
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“However stupid a fool's words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.”
― Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
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