![]() His later writing satirised political corruption in contemporary Russia ( The Government Inspector, Dead Souls), although Gogol also enjoyed the patronage of Tsar Nicholas I who liked his work. His early works, such as Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, were influenced by his Ukrainian upbringing, Ukrainian culture and folklore. According to Viktor Shklovsky, Gogol's strange style of writing resembles the "ostranenie" technique of defamiliarization. ![]() These stories, and others such as " Diary of a Madman", have also been noted for their proto-surrealist qualities. Gogol was one of the first to use the technique of the grotesque, in works such as " The Nose", " Viy", " The Overcoat", and " Nevsky Prospekt". ![]() Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1 April 1809 – 4 March 1852) was a Russian novelist, short story writer and playwright of Ukrainian origin. Daguerreotype of Gogol taken in 1845 by Sergei Lvovich Levitsky (1819–1898) ![]()
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