According to legend, a Soviet critic once cut a piece of cloth from Gogol's overcoat, then on the writer's corpse, to cover his edition of Dead Souls. The tragedy of this action only just overmasters ...
East Bay Times: Popular Canadian show has a story by Gogol, music by Shostakovich — and no dialogue Try on ‘The Overcoat’
Popular Canadian show has a story by Gogol, music by Shostakovich — and no dialogue Try on ‘The Overcoat’
St Petersburg is the setting for Gogol’s novel about the lonely life of a big-city little man (Getty) There’s a lot in The Overcoat that is as scathingly true in modern Britain as in 19th-century ...
The Overcoat: Drama. Adapted from the short story by Nikolai Gogol and directed byMorris Panych and Wendy Gorling. (Through Sept. 25. CanStage at American Conservatory Theater, Geary Theater, 415 ...
Inspired by Gogol’s short story The Overcoat, the Ipswich-based Gecko Theatre Company has created this breath-taking piece of physical theatre to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Russian ...
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol was a Russian novelist, short story writer and playwright of Ukrainian origin.
Gogol's place in Russian literature is unique. He is Russia's classic comic writer, yet the phrase 'laughter through tears', which has been applied to him, hints at darker and more tragic overtones. One of the most idiosyncratic of writers, his influence has nevertheless been profound. Appearing to shun psychological analysis, he is yet the father of the Russian psychological novel and ...
The Enigma of Gogol: An Examination of the Writings of N. V. Gogol and ...