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- adjective literature Of or relating to Nikolai Gogol or his works.
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In his little book on Gogol, Nabokov writes of Gogolian metaphors in which a whole distracting world is contained, perhaps a sign of the immense influence of "Tristram Shandy," with its perpetual digressions, on Russian literature.
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In his little book on Gogol, Nabokov writes of Gogolian metaphors in which a whole distracting world is contained, perhaps a sign of the immense influence of "Tristram Shandy," with its perpetual digressions, on Russian literature.
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Kirkus, (starred review) "Thank God ... for Vladimir Sorokin, whose Ice is in the exalted tradition of Gogolian satire — unblinking, pitch-black, directed at ideas and tendencies rather than at people, and reliant on the kind of humor that makes you laugh wearily while holding a razor blade to your wrist." —
A Different Stripe: 2007
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Kirkus, (starred review) "Thank God ... for Vladimir Sorokin, whose Ice is in the exalted tradition of Gogolian satire — unblinking, pitch-black, directed at ideas and tendencies rather than at people, and reliant on the kind of humor that makes you laugh wearily while holding a razor blade to your wrist." —
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The glut of allusion ranges from the merely learned ( "another Gogolian canard") to the downright professorial ( "like the golden nail in the flea's shoe in the story by Leskov").
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The U.N. bureaucracy is a Gogolian monster with 65,000 employees and a budget of $2.6 billion a year.
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On Pevear and Volokhonsky's imperfections, see this review by Gary Saul Morson of their version of Gogol:But Gogol's most Gogolian punishment, something his paltry demons might have conjured up, has been his translators, who have almost always been pedantic and humorless.
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In the town you are misunderstood and there is nobody to understand you, because, as you know, it is full of Gogolian pig-faces.
The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882
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Hranush Hakobyan attended Gogolian college and Babayan kindergarten in Canada.
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Hranush Hakobyan attended Gogolian college and Babayan kindergarten in Canada.
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