GOGOL, NIKOLAY

Additional reading Biographies include Vladimir Nabokov, Nikolai Gogol (1944, reissued 1989), an astute and rather subjective monograph; Victor Erlich, Gogol (1969), an excellent study; Henri Troyat, Divided Soul (1973, also published as Gogol, 1974); and V.V. Gippius, Gogol (1981). Critical studies may be found in Paul Debreczeny, Nikolay Gogol and His Contemporary Critics (1966); Robert A. Maguire (compiler), Gogol from the Twentieth Century (1974); Simon Karlinsky, The Sexual Labyrinth of Nikolai Gogol (1976), the definitive study of Gogol and sexuality; Donald Fanger, The Creation of Nikolai Gogol (1979), which analyzes the author in the context of his times; and Richard Peace, The Enigma of Gogol (1981).