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thewretch

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« Reply #45 on: August 17, 2005, 02:37:19 PM »
I'm very interested in reading Gogol. What would be a good book to start me off on him?
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« Reply #46 on: August 17, 2005, 05:44:41 PM »
I would start with the short stories. Though "Dead Souls" is his magnum opus, I think everybody posting would agree that these stories are brilliant. You really don't get all of Gogal without reading them. My favorite is "The Diary of a Madman".
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« Reply #47 on: August 17, 2005, 06:37:43 PM »
Thank you so very much!  Grin I do know that Dostoyevsky was a great admirer of Gogol's and I have read about the man's life... but I am always reading someone else's books. What are his stories like? Are they really dark?
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