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The Overcoat
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- Ambeth R. Ocampo
- First published
- 1990
- Editions
- 3
- Subjects
- Nationalists, Biography, History
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- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Nikolai Gogol
- Narrative location
- Saint Petersburg
- Image
- Gogol Palto.jpg
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- form of creative work
- short story
- first line
- В департаменте... но лучше не называть, в каком департаменте.
- published in
- Petersburg Tales
- language of work or name
- Russian
- title
- Шинель
- publication date
- 1842-00-00
- inception
- 1841-00-00
- Commons category
- The Overcoat (Nikolai Gogol)
- copyright status
- public domain
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Encyclopedic overview
Cover, by Igor Grabar, 1890s
"The Overcoat" (Russian: Шине́ль, romanized: Shinél; also translated as "The Cloak" or "The Mantle") is a short story by Nikolai Gogol, published in 1843. The story has had a great influence on Russian literature. Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé, discussing Russian realist writers, said: "We all came out from under Gogol's Overcoat" (a quote often misattributed to Dostoevsky). Writing in 1941, Vladimir Nabokov described "The Overcoat" as "The greatest Russian short story ever written".
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