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"For the first time in English, one received a palpable sense of the idiosyncrasies of Gogol's Russian--its magnificent strangeness, its madness--rendered through no pedantic literalism, but in a vivacious English prose that is almost sui generis, Gogolian, in fact. A genuine triumph, I think one of which even Vladimir Nabokov would have approved."Gogol, Nikolai is the author of 'Dead Souls', published 1997 under ISBN 9780679776444 and ISBN 0679776443.
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