How did he have such a profound understanding of human nature?

he knew of mysterious Russian Soul

>>8601628
without his mustache and with another hairdo he'd look like Putin

>>8603756
if i had some ham i could have some ham and eggs if i had some eggs.

>>8603761
if i were you i'd kill myself if i were not so dumb

>>8601628
Age maybe. Contemplation? The fact that he wrote down his 'understandings' and you read them.

Let's not let this thread die. Gogol is a sneaky genius. Discuss why he is not.

>>8601628
Why do you think that?

I've only read the P&V translation of his Collected Short Stories - while I enjoyed them I felt a lot was lost in translation. There's humour, absurdity, ambiguity and t's all very readable but somehow a lot of it just didn't click for me.

Maybe t's the translation? Is Dead Souls really worth looking into?

>>8603761
my sides

>>8604991
Yes. Very good. Although there no completed in the ending.

>>8604991
absolutely yes
the second part ends abstractly, but astonishing enough to read it also