Gogol is traditionally recognized as a realist writer. However, Nabokov holds a contrary view in Nikolai Gogol.

果戈理习惯被看作是一个现实主义作家，纳博科夫在《尼古拉·果戈理》中却表达了相反的观点。

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Local group Theatre du Pif will present Overcoat, an English play based on the century-old masterpiece by Nikolai Gogol about the alienating world of a bureaucratic office in st Petersburg.

本地剧团进剧场将公演一出英语话剧大衣。大衣改编自nikolai Gogol的百年名著讲述关于圣彼德堡的一个官僚化办公室里疏离的世界。

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The exploitation of dead people for personal profit is the theme of Dead Souls, a 19th-Century Russian classic by Nikolai Gogol.

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In his brief, brilliant study "Nikolai Gogol, " Vladimir Nabokov accounts for Gogol's artistry through this and what he calls Gogol's "four dimensional" prose, a sinuous style that captures characters in their inner being.

WSJ: Surveying the Surging Immensity of Life | Dead Souls | Nikolai Gogol | By Joseph Epstein

"Dead Souls, " meanwhile, is among that small number of uncompleted masterpieces that includes Tchaikovsky's Unfinished Symphony, and Robert Musil's "The Man Without Qualities, " but with the important qualification that Nikolai Gogol's great work is all the better for remaining unfinished.

WSJ: Surveying the Surging Immensity of Life | Dead Souls | Nikolai Gogol | By Joseph Epstein