WRITING CULTURE 2012: Film, Food & Beyond

“I am who I am and that’s who I am” ― Nikolai Gogol

I did not like to read boring books by him when I was in school. I re-read some of his stories recently and rediscovered a brilliant writer!

Some interesting facts about him:

• -He was only 42 when he died, some people say he died a virgin, because no one ever saw him with a woman
• -He burned the book he wrote.
• – Several years before his death he asked not to bury him until after one can see him rotting, but no one listened to him and they buried him right after his death. When re-burying the body, the workers found him skull less and turned around (I was told this when I was a kid and everybody would tell this scary story in class.)

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