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Er reiste Ende nach Petersburg, wo er eine Stellung im Staatsdienst erhielt. Product details File Size: JA March 16, Publication Date: March 16, Sold by: Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a customer review. Showing of 1 reviews.
Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. He studied art, read Italian literature and developed a passion for opera. Vielhorsky was travelling in hopes of curing his tuberculosis.
Gogol and Vielhorsky fell in love, a relationship which was soon severed as Vielhorsky died in Pushkin's death produced a strong impression on Gogol. The book instantly established his reputation as the greatest prose writer in the language.
Konstantinovsky seems to have strengthened in Gogol the fear of perdition by insisting on the sinfulness of all his imaginative work. Exaggerated ascetic practices undermined his health and he fell into a state of deep depression.
Soon thereafter, he took to bed, refused all food, and died in great pain nine days later. His grave was marked by a large stone Golgotha , topped by a Russian Orthodox cross. His body was discovered lying face down, which gave rise to the story that Gogol had been buried alive. The authorities moved the Golgotha stone to the new gravesite, but removed the cross; in the Soviets replaced the stone with a bust of Gogol. In , in connection with the bicentennial of Gogol's birth, the bust was moved [ by whom?
His pictures of nature are strange mounds of detail heaped on detail, resulting in an unconnected chaos of things.
His people are caricatures, drawn with the method of the caricaturist — which is to exaggerate salient features and to reduce them to geometrical pattern. But these cartoons have a convincingness, a truthfulness, and inevitability — attained as a rule by slight but definitive strokes of unexpected reality — that seems to beggar the visible world itself.
He undermined Russian Romanticism by making vulgarity reign where only the sublime and the beautiful had reigned. Gogol himself seemed to be skeptical about the existence of such a literary movement. Nikolai Gogol was a Russian novelist and playwright born in what is now considered part of the modern Ukraine. By the time he was 15, Gogol worked as an amateur writer for both Russian and Ukrainian scripts, and then turned his attention and talent to prose.
His short-story collections were immediately successful and his first novel, The Government Inspector, was well-received. He died in while working on the second part of Dead Souls.
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