Gogol
Ni·ko·lai Va·si·lie·vich [nik-uh-lahy vuh-seel-yuh-vich; Russian nyi-kuh-lahyvuh-syee-lyi-vyich], /ˈnɪk əˌlaɪ vəˈsil yə vɪtʃ; Russian nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/, 1809–52, Russian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.
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How to use Gogol in a sentence
He translated Beowulf into English, and I think he would have done well by Gogol.
Sebastian Barry, Ireland’s Greatest Living Writer, Speaks for the Voiceless | Allen Barra | May 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe said, “Mel, you should read Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Turgenev, Gogol.”
Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview | Alex Belth | February 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTReaders 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.
The Forgotten Russian: The Genius of Nikolai Leskov | Benjamin Lytal | April 10, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHutz 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.
Comrade Kropotkin | Victor RobinsonIn 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.
Contemporary Russian Novelists | Serge PerskyAnd the walls of the cellar heard the reading of the works of Gogol, Dostoyevsky, Karamzine, and others.
Contemporary Russian Novelists | Serge PerskyWe do not know how he regards Socrates, Shakespeare, or Gogol.
The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky | Modeste Tchaikovsky
British Dictionary definitions for Gogol
/ (ˈɡəʊɡɒl, Russian ˈɡɔɡəlj) /
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)
Derived forms of Gogol
- Gogolian, adjective
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