Word: gogol
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Dealer in Dead Souls. For twelve years Gogol traveled restlessly about the Continent, from Germany to France, to Italy, to Switzerland, to France again, and always back to Rome-his favorite city. ("Europe exists in order to watch," he said, "and Italy in order to live.") All the while, Gogol worked at his novel, Dead Souls, also based on one of Pushkin's ideas. In 1842 it was published and, as the Journalist-Historian Alexander Herzen records, "shook the whole of Russia...
Vladimir Nabokov, author of "Conclusive Evidence," "Bend Sinister," and several works on Gogol will visit the College next term to teach the big General Education course in Humanities 2, according to the list of spring course changes posted in the Houses yesterdays...
Where are they now-the Russian intellectuals who sat at Tolstoy's feet (he encased them in square-toed boots), talked the hours away with Chekhov and listened to first-hand yarns about Dostoevsky and Gogol...
...There is no word for "zombie" in Russian. Quick-witted U.N. interpreters hit on pravitelstvo mertvykh dusk, or dead-souls' government, a phrase inspired by Nikolai Gogol's novel Dead Souls...
...film places the action in a sort of opéra-bouffe Dogpatch in central Europe, in Napoleonic times. Kaye is not the knave of Gogol's play but a good-hearted rube. A half-starved outcast from a medicine show, he is mistaken by the crooked mayor (Gene Lockhart) and his henchmen-relatives for Napoleon's feared inspector general traveling incognito. Then, hardly grown into his splendid Techncolored uniform and the hungry affections of the mayor's wife (Elsa Lanchester), Kaye becomes a cat's-paw and fall guy for the scoundrelly medicine-show boss...