He contributed to russian literature through his magnificently crafted dramas, novels and short stories. Gogols bestknown short stories the nose and the overcoat display strains of surrealism and the grotesque, while his greatest novel, dead souls, is one of the founding books of russian realism. Nikolai vasilievich gogol was a ukrainianborn russian dramatist, novelist and short story writer. This was followed by two collections of short stories, mirgorod and arabesques 1835. The overcoat is perhaps the bestknown and most influential short fiction in all of russian literature. The nose short story was composed during the time he spent in st. Read the overcoat and other short stories by nikolai gogol available from rakuten kobo. English nikolai vasilevich gogol 1409 downloads the mantle, and other stories nikolai.
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