RUSSIAN 50 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Dramaqueen, Kupala, Mania
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Difference bw them: dad = ukrainian writer, gogol = russian writer. So he bought every one of them to burn and left the country bc he was embarrassed someone"s a dramaqueen. Breakthrough work = evenings on a farm near dikanka. 1831-1832 = because full time writer in st petersburg. Gogol is known as a short story writer. Different than other russian writers bc he didn"t keep obsessive diaries. No luva in his lifeu that we know abt. He was taken by manic thoughts and believed religious experiences could purify him. Lack of confidence & thought he was dying when suffering from mental illness. Believed that nothing he was writing was worthing of publication. Went through periods of ideas: he could do everything depression. Last 10 years of his life religious mania, total lack of confidence, mental illnesses. 22 and 23 years old when he published these volumes.
