Author / The Golden Age
1809–1852
An ordinary life. An extraordinary eye.
Laughter through tears unseen by the world.
Prose writer and playwright born in the Poltava province. He became famous for the collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, the comedy The Government Inspector and the novel Dead Souls. His work combines humour and the grotesque with deep moral anxiety.
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