When his son Gogol is born, Ashoke thinks, Being rescued from that shattered train had been the first miracle of his life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri: Questions] Reference

If one can like surrealism and ludic games in Gogol, then one should be able to appreciate the same in a good contemporary writer.    From Wordnik.com.  [James Wood on his Criticism and Critics] Reference

The man called Gogol, who had hardly spoken through all their weary travels, suddenly threw up his hands like a lost spirit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare] Reference

Gogol is indeed wonderful and magical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who Nose?] Reference

It is difficult to praise 'Gogol's Wife' too highly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gogol's Grandson] Reference

Gogol is that close to the cuffs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Diary of a Madman | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast] Reference

Gogol sat down last, grumbling in his brown beard about gombromise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Who Was Thursday] Reference

The whimsy and confusion might have been penned by Gogol or Voinovich.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soviet Airhead Defense] Reference

My partner, Suzanne, kept laughing and saying we are in a Gogol novel.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Diary: Voting Day Open Thread-- Post reports, observations, Thoughts Links] Reference

“Did you know,” he asked, “that that man Gogol was one of us?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Who Was Thursday] Reference

Gogol has written in Taras Bulba his own reproach to the nineteenth century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taras Bulba and Other Tales] Reference

No one knows what Gogol, if were he alive today, would make of these debates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gogol Gets Caught in a Tug of Love] Reference

Gogol never wrote either his history of Little Russia or his universal history.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taras Bulba and Other Tales] Reference

And yet at the time Gogol could not have had more than a smattering of the Odyssey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taras Bulba and Other Tales] Reference

I nearly flung my arms round Gogol and embraced him, which would have been imprudent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Who Was Thursday] Reference

“It was Gogol, in Dead Souls, father,” cried Colia, glancing at him in some alarm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Idiot] Reference

In Gogol, who died in 1852, the Russians had to lament the loss of a keen and vigorous satirist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers] Reference

The three who had risen fell away from Gogol, and that equivocal person himself resumed his seat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Who Was Thursday] Reference

The first to speak was Gogol, the irreconcilable, who seemed bursting with inarticulate grievance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Who Was Thursday] Reference

Only fancy, he claims (he was arguing about it all the way yesterday) that Gogol wrote Dead Souls about him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brothers Karamazov] Reference

“I am not good at goncealment,” said Gogol sulkily, with a thick foreign accent; “I am not ashamed of the cause.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Who Was Thursday] Reference

In one of his texts Gogol inserts a major diversion in a metaphor that compares something to a bather; as Nabokov remarked.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Cheever's Cruel Paradoxes] Reference

Perhaps the greatest charm of "Dead Souls" is the way Gogol often steps outside his narrative to talk directly to the reader.    From Wordnik.com.  [Underbelly of Russian Provincials] Reference

They knew, perhaps, before Gogol told them, that their friends were like Podkoleosin, but they did not know what name to give them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Idiot] Reference

First is the feeling, without basis, that one is somehow being cheated -- as in Gogol; second is a tendency to exaggerate or invent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Solzhenitsyn Was a Russian Patriot] Reference

Pushkin and Gogol are considered realists, and as in Germany they argue about “critical realism,” “radical democratic realism,”.    From Wordnik.com.  [REALISM IN LITERATURE] Reference