The reader – our contemporary – was discarded in his ideas about Gogol a century and a half ago: he again knows only Gogol -satirist, author of the “Examiner”, “Dead Souls” and the “Tendy” book of the selected places from correspondence with friends. ” The spiritual prose of Gogol for our contemporaries practically does not exist; In part, they are in an even more sad situation than the contemporaries of the writer: they could judge him on their own, and the current public opinion about Gogol is imposed – numerous articles, scientific monographs and teaching in schools and universities. Meanwhile, it is impossible to understand and evaluate the work of Gogol as a whole outside of spiritual categories.
And these days, Gogol’s Testament, given to his compatriots, is heard with renewed vigor: “Be not dead, but living souls. There is no other door, except for the indicated by Jesus Christ, and everyone will be fraught otherwise than there is a tat and robber.”
The book consists of the most significant religious and moral works of the writer, for the most part unapproved …
Author
Gogol Nikolay Vasilievich
Publisher
Olmamediagrupp/Enlightenment, 2014
Series
Libros de Eterna. Books about the eternal
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