6/11/2023 0 Comments The nose the overcoatThe depth of his psychological portraiture and the sweep of his romantic apostrophes, however, remain powerful and fascinating. Nor does he engender his heroes with abandon and ennui, as do his near contemporaries Alexander Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov. His genius does not dwell in philosophical dialogues, allegory, or involved interior monologue as do the realist novels of the latter half of the century. Gogol focuses his major creative occupation on the manners of his characters his creative energy is nowhere more apparent than in the “mannerizing” in which he describes and characterizes. These petty clerks, all socially dysfunctional in some major respect, nevertheless explore the great depth of the human soul and exhibit certain personality traits characteristic of the greatest heroes in literature. His heroes of the “little man” variety imprinted the most profound impression on his readers and critics alike. Frequently, the supernatural or some confounding coincidence plays a major role in his works. He captures the “real” against the background of the imagined and, in the estimation of at least one critic, the surreal. He bridges the period between Romanticism and realism in Russian literature. Nikolai Gogol (31 March 1809 – 4 March 1852) combines the consummate stylist with the innocent spectator, flourishes and flounces with pure human emotion, naturalism with delicate sensitivity.
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