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...lecturer next turned his attention to the prose writers, beginning with Gogol, the founder of the Russian naturalistic school. After an interesting and sarcastic sketch of the aristocratic tendencies of the time, the speaker gave a pathetic picture of Gogol's character, illustrating his literary physiognomy by a fine fragment from his "Dead Souls." The new elements brought into literature by Gogol can be expressed in one word: he was the first who made people feel ashamed of life. With Gogol, literature in Russia ceased to be a monopoly of the drawing room, and becomes the property of the nation...
...Lermontov, romantic pessimism. Koltsoff,- popularpoetry. Gogol. Genesis of the naturalistic school. "The Forties." The Moscow University. Slavophiles and "Westernists...
...central point of the next lecture will be Gogol and the genesis of the Russian naturalistic school, of which Tourgenev, Dostoyevsky, and Leo Tolstoy are the chief representatives...
...Lermontov, romantic pessimism. Koltsoff,- popular poetry. Gogol. Genesis of the naturalistic school. "The Forties." The Moscow University. Slavophiles and "Westernists...
Lecture III (1837-1861). Lermontov,- romantic pessimism. Koltsoff,- popular poetry. Gogol. Genesis of the naturalistic school. "The forties." The Moscow university. Slavphiles and "Westernists...