Gogol

American  

[goh-guhl, -gawl, gaw-guhl] / ˈgoʊ gəl, -gɔl, ˈgɔ gəl /

noun

1. Nikolai Vasilievich 1809–52, Russian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.

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Gogol British  

/ ˈɡɔɡəlj, ˈɡəʊɡɒl /

noun

1. 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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Other Word Forms

• Gogolian adjective

Example Sentences

Variously compared to Irish writer Samuel Beckett and Russia's Fyodor Dostoyevsky, late American critic Susan Sontag called Krasznahorkai "the contemporary Hungarian master of apocalypse who inspires comparison with Gogol and Melville".

From Barron's

Gogol’s classes sold out quickly in Los Angeles this year so go ahead and book early to give your gift recipient a head start on growing their own in 2025.

From Los Angeles Times

“There’s no perfect time to pick a tomato in your garden, and there’s no perfect time to harvest your cannabis. So the ‘when’ is really between you and your plants,” Gogol said.

From Los Angeles Times

What happened next, as recounted by Irina and her mother, is as surreal and dark as a novel by 19th Century Russian writer Nikolai Gogol.

From BBC

Inside the $45 packet were five feminized, photoperiod seeds from Gogol’s Oregon farm, and they can be purchased with no more hassle — or stigma — than anything else at C&S Garden Center.

From Los Angeles Times