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Belinsky viewed Gogol's recent book, Correspondence with Friends, as pernicious because it renounced the need to “awaken in the people a sense of their human dignity, trampled down in the mud and the filth for so many centuries.” Fyodor Dostoevsky read aloud at several public events Belinsky's letter, which called for the end of serfdom. A ...
Daguerreotype of Gogol taken in 1845 by Sergei Lvovich Levitsky (1819–1898). Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol [b] (1 April [O.S. 20 March] 1809 [a] – 4 March [O.S. 21 February] 1852) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin.
"The Lost Letter" (1831) is the fourth Ukrainian tale in the 1832 collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol. The story is told by an exuberant narrator, the old sexton Foma, who will return with another story, "A Bewitched Place", in the next volume. It was made into an animated film of the same name in 1945. The lost letter
Belinsky, the author of Letter to Gogol, would have been classified as a dangerous criminal since many of the Petrashevsky Circle members' only fault had been participation in the dissemination of the text of the letter. The letter was a passionate and extreme denunciation of Nikolai Gogol's loyalty to the autocracy and the Russian Orthodox ...
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:
Dead Souls (Russian: Мёртвые души Myórtvyye dúshi, pre-reform spelling: Мертвыя души) is a novel by Nikolai Gogol, first published in 1842, and widely regarded as an exemplar of 19th-century Russian literature.
Gogol is noted for his instability of style, tone, genre among other literary devices, as Boris Eichenbaum notes. Eichenbaum also notes that Gogol wrote "The Overcoat" in a skaz—a difficult-to-translate colloquial language in Russian deriving from or associated with an oral storytelling tradition. [citation needed]
Gogol evokes common images of madness in his characterization of Poprischkin – 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 ...