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The story and its author have had great influence on russian literature, as expressed in a quote attributed to fyodor dostoyevsky. Gogol satirized the corrupt bureaucracy of the russian empire through the scrupulous. Other stories, like the overcoat 1842, seem to poke fun at the bureaucracy of the russian empire. There is nothing more irritable than all kinds of departments, regiments, courts of justice and, in a word, every branch of public service. Fiction, short story net english exam the overcoat by nikolai gogol. I was unfamiliar with gogols work before reading the jhumpa lahiri novel. The story of the poor, downtrodden clerk akaky and his overcoat. See all 2 formats and editions hide other formats and editions.
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