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Nikolai Gogol


Born
in Sorochyntsi, Poltava guberniya, Russian Empire, Ukraine
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 · 331,694 ratings · 19,855 reviews · 1,833 distinct works � Similar authors
Dead Souls
3.98 avg rating — 91,661 ratings — published 1842 — 57 editions
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The Overcoat
4.15 avg rating — 48,007 ratings — published 1842 — 3 editions
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Diary of a Madman and Other...
4.08 avg rating — 21,174 ratings — published 1835 — 20 editions
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The Inspector General
3.97 avg rating — 18,286 ratings — published 1835 — 491 editions
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4.35 avg rating — 15,093 ratings — published 1835 — 46 editions
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The Nose (Penguin Little Bl...
3.72 avg rating — 15,553 ratings — published 1836 — 437 editions
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The Overcoat and Other Shor...
4.20 avg rating — 12,248 ratings — published 1836
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Taras Bulba
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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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“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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Polls

May 2017 Old School Classic Poll

 
  61 votes, 18.5%

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, 1842, 512 pages
 
  59 votes, 17.9%

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, 1320, 798 pages
 
  49 votes, 14.8%

Silas Marner by George Eliot, 1861, 248 pages
 
  37 votes, 11.2%

The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas, 1850, 246 pages
 
  31 votes, 9.4%

 
  26 votes, 7.9%

 
  21 votes, 6.4%

 
  16 votes, 4.8%

Germinal by Émile Zola, 1885, 592 pages
 
  16 votes, 4.8%

Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac, 1834, 370 pages
 
  12 votes, 3.6%

 
  2 votes, 0.6%

330 total votes
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