"The Overcoat" is one of Gogol's most celebrated and influential short stories, having influenced Dostoyevsky, Nabokov (who concluded in his essay on Gogol "in the immortal "The Overcoat", he really let himself go and pottered on the brink of his private abyss, he became the greatest artist that Russia has yet produced"), and a host of other writers. Furthermore, debates still rage today over how it should be interpreted. It is, however, a very accessible piece of work and can be enjoyed as a simple, albeit grotesque, tale. "The Nose" shares many features with "The Overcoat", although it veers further into the surreal and absurd. Gogol's most famous novel, "Dead Souls", was to be in two parts and the first part (titled "Dead Souls: A Poem") was published to great acclaim. Nobody really knows if Gogol ever finished part two of "Dead Souls", and two unfinished versions were published posthumously. Gogol is believed to have become fearful for his own soul, leading him to burn much of the manuscript. He then starved himself to death in 1852, aged 42. "Suprematism" is a Malevich painting from the 1920s. Chekhov's "Three Sisters" is a 1900 play. Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring" (1913)is a ballet and concert piece.

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