Questions tagged [nikolai-gogol]
Questions about the Ukrainian-born author Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1809 – 1852) and his works. He is best known the play 'The Government Inspector', the novels 'Dead Souls' and 'Taras Bulba', and stories such as 'The Nose' and 'Nevsky Prospekt'. Use this tag with the tag [russian-literature].
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Marxist reading of Gogol's "The Overcoat"?
The Wikipedia page about Gogol's short story "The Overcoat" is full of [citation needed] notices. The following sentence in particular caught my eye:
A Marxist reading of the text would ...
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Had people related the work of Gogol before "The Nose"?
In The Nose, an opera by Demitri Shostakovich, Shostakovich combines many of Nikolai Gogol's stories, including The Nose, for which the opera is named, into a single story. Had previous critics or ...
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