By Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
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Over and over again, Gogol tells us that man, including himself, must become better. It is only his desire to become better that gives man hope (Gogol's conviction that this desire is innate in all men also informs Selected Passages with a constant optimism). If the Resurrection were to be celebrated as it ought to be celebrated, each man would embrace every other man as a brother. It is not abstract preachment of love that is meaningful, but concrete expression of love, a fulfillment of man's basic desire.
Gogol und seine Bünenwerke (Berlin, 1922). French: Nina Gourfinkel, Nicholas Gogol dramaturge (Paris, 1956); Modeste Hormann, Gogol, sa vie et son oeuvre (Paris, 1946); Louis Leger, Gogol (Paris, 1914); D. S. Merejkovsky, Gogol et le diable (Paris, 1939), also published in Russian and German; N. A. Hilsson, Gogol et Pétersbourg: Recherches sur les antécédents des contes pétersbourgeois (Stockholm, 1954); B. F. Schloezer, Gogol (Paris, 1932 and 1946); A. Schick, Nicolas Gogalune vie de torments (Sceaux, 1949); Raina Tyrneva, Nicolas GogolEcrivain et moraliste (Aix, 1901) Spanish: Claudio Giaconi, Un Hombre en la trampa (Santiago, 1960).
The recommendations could be successful only if a change of heart first occurred, and if they were carried out in the spirit of that change. If we examine his recommendations, we discover that they are all concerned with the relations between men and predicated upon the attitudes of the persons involved. The moral activity we find in Selected Passages thus, while repugnant in a static world, becomes quite different if viewed in the light of Gogol's religious convictions. He thought of the moral activity as the practical result of realizing love for one's fellow man within oneself, on the one hand, and as conducive to the arousal of such love in those to whom the love was displayed, on the other.