# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nikolai-gogol
# Generated: 2026-08-31T13:54:57.034Z

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name: "Nikolai Gogol"
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description: "He made the ordinary monstrous and the absurd unbearable. Gogol wrote noses that walked off faces, overcoats that haunted their owners, and clerks losing their minds in diaries—grotesque, proto-surrealist tales that taught Russian literature how to see the world slant."
tagline: "Russian writer of Ukrainian origin (1809–1852)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in 1809 to Ukrainian roots, Gogol drew his early work—Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka—from folklore and the textures of his upbringing. Then came the defamiliarization: "The Nose," "Viy," "Diary of a Madman," stories that turned the familiar strange and cracked open new ways of seeing. He pivoted to savage satire with The Government Inspector and Dead Souls, skewering political corruption in Russia even as Tsar Nicholas I kept him in favor. Taras Bulba, Marriage, "The Overcoat"—the list lengthened, the influence deepened. Dostoevsky, Kafka, Nabokov, Bulgakov, O'Connor: they all traced lines back to him. He died in 1852, forty-two years old, having bent the grammar of fiction itself.