![]() ![]() ‘The soul is better than teeth.’ These idiosyncratic capricious traits informed much of his writings. ‘Forget your wretched teeth,’ he wrote to a friend who wanted to go to see a dentist. He was morbidly dependent on his friends’ company. He disliked making love to women, and avoided his mother to the point of forging foreign postage stamps on his letters to make her believe he was living abroad. He was described as a weedy little fellow with a tapir-like nose who was known at school as the ‘mysterious dwarf.’ His behaviour and attitude to life were eccentric. His life and character were as dark and strangely comic as his writings. Nikolai Gogol (1809 -1852) was a Russian playwright and author. ‘Gogol was a strange creature, but then genius is always strange.’ David Stuart Davies looks at Nikolai Gogol’s comic masterpiece ![]()
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