Nikolai Gogol bibliography

A lithograph portrait of Nikolai Gogol published by Vezenberg & Co., St. Petersburg, between 1880 and 1886.

This is a list of the works by Nikolai Gogol (1809-52), followed by a list of adaptations of his works:

Drama

• Decoration of Vladimir of the Third Class, unfinished comedy (1832).^[1]
• Marriage, comedy (1835).^[1]
• The Gamblers, comedy (1836).^[1]
• The Government Inspector, also translated as The Inspector General (1836).^[1]
• Leaving the Theater, (After the Staging of a New Comedy) (1836)

Essays

• Woman, essay (1830)
• Preface, to first volume of Evenings on a Farm (1831)
• Preface, to second volume of Evenings on a Farm (1832)
• Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends, collection of letters and essays (1847).^[1]
  • Meditations on the Divine Liturgy

Fiction

• Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, volume I of short story collection (1831):^[1]
  • The Fair at Sorochintsï
  • St John's Eve
  • May Night, or the Drowned Maiden
  • The Lost Letter: A Tale Told by the Sexton of the N...Church
• Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, volume II of short story collection (1832):^[1]
  • Christmas Eve
  • A Terrible Vengeance
  • Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt
  • A Bewitched Place
• Arabesques, short story collection (1835):^[1]
  • The Portrait
  • A Chapter from an Historical Novel (fragment)
  • Nevsky Prospect
  • The Prisoner (fragment)
  • Diary of a Madman
• Mirgorod, short story collection in two volumes (1835):^[1]
  • The Old World Landowners
  • Taras Bulba
  • Viy
  • The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich
• The Nose, short story (1836-1836)
• The Carriage, short story (1836)
• Rome, fragment (1842)
• The Overcoat, short story (1842)
• Dead Souls, novel (1842), intended as the first part of a trilogy.^[2]

Poetry

• Ode to Italy, poem (1829)
• Hanz Küchelgarten, narrative poem published under the pseudonym "V. Alov" (1829)

Adaptations

Film

• 1913: The Night Before Christmas, a 41-minute film by Ladislas Starevich which contains some of the first combinations of stop motion animation with live action
• 1926: The Overcoat, a Soviet silent film directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg
• 1945: The Lost Letter, the Soviet Union's first feature-length traditionally-animated film
• 1949: The Inspector General, a musical comedy and very loose adaptation directed by Henry Koster and starring Danny Kaye.
• 1951: The Night Before Christmas, an animated feature film directed by the Brumberg sisters
• 1952: Il Cappotto, an Italian film directed by Alberto Lattuada
• 1959: The Overcoat, a Soviet film directed by Aleksey Batalov
• 1962: Taras Bulba, a Yugoslavian/American film directed by J. Lee Thompson
• 1963: The Nose, a short film by Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker using pinscreen animation
• 1967: Viy, a horror film made on Mosfilm and based on the Nikolai Gogol story of the same name.
• 1984: Dead Souls, directed by Mikhail Shveytser
• 1997: The Night Before Christmas, a 26-minute stop-motion-animated film [1]
• 20??: The Overcoat, an upcoming film by acclaimed animator Yuriy Norshteyn, being worked on since 1981

Opera

• 1874: Vakula the Smith, an opera by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
• 1880: May Night, an opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
• 1885: Cherevichki, Tchaikovsky's revision of Vakula the Smith
• 1906: Zhenitba, an unfinished opera begun in 1868 by Modest Mussorgsky
• 1917: The Fair at Sorochyntsi, an unfinished opera begun in 1874 by Modest Mussorgsky and first completed by César Cui - many different versions exist
• 1930: The Nose, a satirical opera by Dmitri Shostakovich
• 1976: Dead Souls, an opera by Russian nationalist composer Rodion Shchedrin
• 2011: Gogol, an opera by Russian composer Lera Auerbach commissioned by Vienna's Theater an der Wien

Radio

• 2006: Dead Souls, a BBC radio adaptation

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Golub (1998, 432).
2. ^ http://partikal7.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/partial-perfection-2-no-go-at-dead-souls-%D0%BC%D1%91%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B2%D1%8B%D0%B5-%D0%B4%D1%83%D1%88%D0%B8/

Sources

• Golub, Spencer. 1998. "Gogol, Nikolai (Vasilievich)." In The Cambridge Guide to Theatre. Ed. Martin Banham. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. 431-432. ISBN 0521434378.