Russian writer of Ukrainian origin (1809–1852)
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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.
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 lin…
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...it's not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments. I must exhibit life full-face, not discuss life.
In the course of reading he became more and more melancholy and finally became completely gloomy.
What a dreary world we live in, gentlemen.
Turn around, son! What a funny figure you are! Are those priests' cassocks you are wearing?
And ruined is the Cossack! He is lost for all the chivalry of the Cossacks! He will see Zaporozhye no more; nor his father's farms, nor the church of God.
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