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Повести
Вечери в селцето край Диканка
Миргород
Петербургски повести (Невски проспект, Нос, Портрет, Шинел, Каляска, Записки на един луд, Рим)
Миргород
Петербургски повести (Невски проспект, Нос, Портрет, Шинел, Каляска, Записки на един луд, Рим)
367 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1979
About the author
Nikolai Gogol
1,938 books5,964 followersPeople 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 , The Overcoat , and Nevsky Prospekt . Ukrainian upbringing, culture, and folklore influenced his early works, such as Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka .
His later writing satirized political corruption in the Russian empire in Dead Souls .
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 , The Overcoat , and Nevsky Prospekt . Ukrainian upbringing, culture, and folklore influenced his early works, such as Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka .
His later writing satirized political corruption in the Russian empire in Dead Souls .
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May 18, 2010
Net een mooie film gezien: The Namesake (2006 - Mira Nair)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Name...
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http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33...
en waarin 'De mantel' van Gogol het leidmotief vormt...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Over...
"The story and its author have had great influence on Russian literature, thus spawning Fyodor Dostoyevsky's famous quote: "We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Name...
gebaseerd op dit boek:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33...
en waarin 'De mantel' van Gogol het leidmotief vormt...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Over...
"The story and its author have had great influence on Russian literature, thus spawning Fyodor Dostoyevsky's famous quote: "We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'."
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