![]() ![]() “What an intelligent, queer, and sick creature!” remarked Turgenev another major prose writer, Sergey Aksakov, referred to the “unintelligible strangeness of his spirit.” When Gogol died, the poet Pyotr Vyazemsky sighed, “Your life was an enigma, so is today your death.” Strange, peculiar, wacky, weird, bizarre, and other words indicating enigmatic oddity recur in descriptions of him. Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852), Russia’s greatest comic writer, thoroughly baffled his contemporaries. ![]()
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