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Author

Nikolai Gogol

Language

Russian

Year

1842

Country

Russia

Genre

Stories / Tales / Myths (Collection)

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"The Overcoat" is a short story by Nikolai Gogol, published in 1842. 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". Writing in 1941, Vladimir Nabokov described "The Overcoat" as "The greatest Russian short story ever written".