Product details
- Series: Bank of Montreal Stratford Festival
- Audio CD
- Publisher: Cbc Radio Canada; Abridged edition (July 27, 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0660197332
- ISBN-13: 978-0660197333
* A compilation of representative stories by Nikolai Gogol. * Contains a new introduction by Anton Boyko. * Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809-1852), although Russian, was born in the village of Sorochyntsi in the Poltava Oblast province of central Ukraine. He was never accepted by the Russian public as being completely Russian in his thinking and political ideology, and indeed he was not. Gogol's Ukrainian upbringing is most evident in his early works which draw heavily from Ukrainian culture and folk history. His later writing was more subversive, openly satirizing the corruption he saw rampant throughout Russia's empire. Gogol was homosexual. At age seventeen he wrote passionate letters to a friend who, being two years older, had graduated before Gogol, leaving him bereft. Gogol eventually exiled himself from Russia, living in Rome. It was here that he enjoyed at least one mutual love affair with a man, but
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