The verdict was: "You'll never make a fiction writer, that's obvious
When he showed to his classmates his first attempt at prose fiction, Some quarters I am so very quiet, modest, polite in others – Wrote: "At home I am considered willful here I am called meek. He found it difficult to open up to his schoolmates, who regarded himĪs the "mysterious dwarf," a secretive individual. However, he was not very highly esteemed by his school and He produced plays for the student's theatre and acted in some He attended Poltavaīoarding school (1819-21) and then Nezhin high school (1821-28), where Gogol started write while in high school. Gogol's father was an educated and gifted man, who wrote plays, poems, and sketches in Grandfather had taken the name 'Gogol' to claim a noble Cossack ancestry. His real surname was Ianovskii, but the writer's Nikolai Gogol was born in Sorochintsi, Ukraine, where he grew up on his Why we cannot see our own noses – they're all on the moon." (from Diary of a Madman, 1835) On it any more, and all that's left alive there are noses. Reason the moon is such a tender globe it that people just cannot live Stink all over the earth that you have to hold your nose. He put in aĬreosoted rope and some wood oil and this has led to such a terrible "The moon is made by some lame cooper,Īnd you can see the idiot has no idea about moons at all. Nature, Gogol could be called the Hieronymus Bosch of Russian Gogol's prose is characterized by imaginative Great Russian novelist, dramatist, satirist,įounder of the so-called critical realism in Russian literature, best-known for his novel Mertvye dushi A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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