Synopsis "Rome (in French)"

Essayez de fixer la foudre, alors que, déluge insoutenable de lumière, elle fend en zigzaguant un ciel couleur de suie: tels sont les yeux d'Annunziata l'Albaine. Tout en elle rappelle les temps antiques où le marbre s'animait sous le ciseau fulgurant des sculpteurs. Ses lourds cheveux d'un noir de poix s'en- roulent en un double diadème, d'où s'échappent quatre longues tresses.

Nikolái Gogol

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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was born in 1809, in present-day Ukraine, and died in Moscow in 1852. He moved to Saint Petersburg in 1828, and after overcoming some setbacks, he entered the literary circles of that city in 1831. His humor, the treatment of themes, the use of language, and stylistic devices left deep marks and set a precedent.
The work of Nikolai Gogol, considered by many critics as the father of Russian realism, laid the foundations for what would be the Golden Age of Russian literature. Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Chekhov in the 19th century, as well as Zamyatin, Bulgakov, and Nabokov in the 20th century, acknowledged their debt to this author.

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