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Gogol [goh-guh l; -gawl; Russian gaw-guh l] Examples noun
- Ni·ko·lai Va·si·lie·vich [nik-uh-lahy vuh-seel-yuh-vich; Russian nyi-kuh-lahy vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /ˈnɪk əˌlaɪ vəˈsil yə vɪtʃ; Russian nyɪ kʌˈlaɪ vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/, 1809–52, Russian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.
Examples from the Web for gogol Contemporary Examples of gogol
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
He said, “Mel, you should read Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Turgenev, Gogol.”
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Alex Belth
February 16, 2014
Readers familiar with Chekhov, Gogol, Pushkin or Turgenev have already tasted some 19th-century Russian gothic literature.
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Mythili Rao
April 22, 2013
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
Hutz plays A.K., the frontman of a band called, yes, Gogol Bordello, who earns money on the side as a male dominator.
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Rachel Syme
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Historical Examples of gogol
The very ambrosia that the governor’s wife longed for in Gogol’s ‘Revisor’!
Ivan S. Turgenev
The success of this play was rivalled by Gogol’s comedy, “The Revisor.”
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year
Edwin Emerson
But Rabinowitsch does not imitate Gogol and Ostrovski, at least not purposely.
The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century
Leo Wiener
When Nekrasof entered his room exclaiming, “A new Gogol is born to us!”
Russia: Its People and Its Literature
Emilia Pardo Bazán
The public was exasperated; it was Gogol’s fate to rouse the tiger.
Russia: Its People and Its Literature
Emilia Pardo Bazán
British Dictionary definitions for gogol Gogol noun
- 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 FormsGogolian, adjective