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Gogol

[ goh-guhl; -gawl; Russian gaw-guhl ]

noun

  1. Ni·ko·lai Va·si·lie·vich [nik, -, uh, -lahy v, uh, -, seel, -y, uh, -vich, nyi-kuh-, lahy, vuh-, syee, -lyi-vyich], 1809–52, Russian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.


Gogol

/ ˈɡəʊɡɒl; ˈɡɔɡəlj /

noun

  1. GogolNikolai Vasilievich18091852MRussianWRITING: novelistTHEATRE: dramatistWRITING: short-story writer Nikolai Vasilievich (nikaˈlaj vaˈsiljɪvitʃ). 1809–52, Russian novelist, dramatist, and short-story writer. His best-known works are The Government Inspector (1836), a comedy satirizing bureaucracy, and the novel Dead Souls (1842)


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Derived Forms

  • ˌGoˈgolian, adjective

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Example Sentences

He translated Beowulf into English, and I think he would have done well by Gogol.

He said, “Mel, you should read Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Turgenev, Gogol.”

Readers familiar with Chekhov, Gogol, Pushkin or Turgenev have already tasted some 19th-century Russian gothic literature.

Think Gogol's "Ukrainian Tales" redone by a Boy Scout who doesn't believe in magic.

Hutz plays A.K., the frontman of a band called, yes, Gogol Bordello, who earns money on the side as a male dominator.

We read of Turgenev who was arrested and exiled to his distant estates for writing a brief obituary notice of Gogol.

In an adaptation of Gogol's 'The Inspector,' he has shown what he might have been had he had any earnest purpose in life.

There was general enthusiasm; Gogol absorbed almost the entire attention of the public and men of letters.

And the walls of the cellar heard the reading of the works of Gogol, Dostoyevsky, Karamzine, and others.

We do not know how he regards Socrates, Shakespeare, or Gogol.

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