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Felix Dreizin and David Guaspari, for example, in their The Russian Soul and the Jew: Essays in Literary Ethnocentrism, discuss "the significance of the Jewish characters and the negative image of the Ukrainian Jewish community in Gogol's novel Taras Bulba, pointing out Gogol's attachment to anti-Jewish prejudices prevalent in Russian and ...
Shinyél’; sometimes translated as "The Cloak" or "The Mantle") is a short story by Nikolai Gogol, published in 1842. The story has had a great influence on Russian literature. Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé, discussing Russian realist writers, said: "We all came out from under Gogol's Overcoat" (a quote often misattributed to Dostoevsky).
Arabesques (Russian: «Арабески») are collected works written and compiled by Nikolai Gogol, first published in January 1835. [1] The collection consists of two parts, diverse in content, hence its name: ″arabesques,″ a special type of Arabic design where lines wind around each other.
A lithograph portrait of Nikolai Gogol published by Vezenberg & Co., St. Petersburg, between 1880 and 1886. This is a list of the works by Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852), followed by a list of adaptations of his works:
Gogol evokes common images of madness in his characterization of Poprishchin – auditory hallucination (the talking dogs), delusions of grandeur (thinking he is the King of Spain), and the institutional context of the asylum and its effect on the individual. In the second half of the nineteenth century, "Diary of a Madman" was frequently cited ...
Out of these works, Gogol's is the most famous because it presents an absurd tale that serves as not only social commentary but also a comedic tale for all ages. In A History of Russian Literature, the critic D. S. Mirsky writes, "The Nose is a piece of sheer play, almost sheer nonsense. In it more than anywhere else Gogol displays his ...
In the year of its publication he hailed Gogol as the new “head of Russian literature.” [11] Leo Tolstoy read “Viy” as a young man and counted it among the works of literature that left a “tremendous” impression him. [12] In his book-length study, Nikolai Gogol, 20th-century novelist Vladimir Nabokov was far harsher.
"The Fair at Sorochyntsi" is the first story in the collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Ukrainian writer Nikolai Gogol. Later in the 19th century the story was adapted as an opera of the same name by Modest Mussorgsky (left unfinished by the composer, and completed by other hands). The Fair at Sorochyntsi