![]() ![]() Progressive critics of his day praised Gogol for grounding his prose fictions in the everyday lives of ordinary people, and they claimed him as a pioneer of a new “naturalist” aesthetic. Gogol’s writings have been seen as a bridge between the genres of romanticism and realism in Russian literature. That either or both might have said it is an indication of the far-reaching significance of Gogol’s work. “We all came out from under Gogol’s ‘Overcoat’” is a remark that has been variously attributed to Dostoevsky and Turgenev. The story is considered not only an early masterpiece of Russian Naturalism-a movement that would dominate the country’s literature for generations-but a progenitor of the modern short story form itself. One of the most influential short stories ever written, Nikolai Gogol’s “The Overcoat” ( “Shinel”) first appeared in 1842 as part of a four-volume publication of its author’s Collected Works (Sochinenya). ![]()
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