He translated Beowulf into English, and I think he would have done well by Gogol.
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He said, “Mel, you should read Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Turgenev, Gogol.”
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Readers familiar with Chekhov, Gogol, Pushkin or Turgenev have already tasted some 19th-century Russian gothic literature.
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Think Gogol's "Ukrainian Tales" redone by a Boy Scout who doesn't believe in magic.
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Hutz plays A.K., the frontman of a band called, yes, Gogol Bordello, who earns money on the side as a male dominator.
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For Gogol is indeed also a painter, but only a landscape-painter, while Turgenef makes you feel even the breeze of a summer eve.
Lectures on Russian Literature|Ivan Panin
One can understand their disgust; it is less easy to understand their surprise; for Gogol had never pretended to be a Liberal.
An Outline of Russian Literature|Maurice Baring
Gogol's health and spirits were profoundly affected by this unexpected enmity.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16|Various
We read of Turgenev who was arrested and exiled to his distant estates for writing a brief obituary notice of Gogol.
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With Gogol, as with all lofty souls before they find their truest self, aspiration ever soared above execution.
Lectures on Russian Literature|Ivan Panin
British Dictionary definitions for Gogol
Gogol
/ (ˈɡəʊɡɒl, Russianˈɡɔɡəlj) /
noun
Nikolai Vasilievich (nikaˈlaj vaˈsiljɪvitʃ). 1809–52, Russian novelist, dramatist, and short-story writer. His best-known works are The Government Inspector (1836), a comedy satirizing bureaucracy, and the novel Dead Souls (1842)