Nikolai Gogol (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)

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Nikolai Gogol established his reputation on his remarkable short stories, but he is often better known in the West for his play Revizor (pr., pb. 1836; The Inspector General, 1890) and for the first part of his novel Myortvye dushi (1842; Dead Souls, 1887). Still the subject of much debate and criticism, his Vybrannye mesta iz perepiski s druzyami (1847; Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends, 1969) represents a range from literary criticism to tendentious and presumptuous evaluation of Russia as seen...

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