Gogol

In Russian literature, judging from depicting art, hardly anybody exceeds Gogol.

在俄罗斯文学中，从写物艺术方面看很少有人能比得上果戈理。

Or he writes all the time and, like Gogol at the end of his life, burns the manuscripts.

有人说他一直都在写，而且像晚年的果戈理那样烧掉了手稿；

Comparing his nation to a speeding troika, Gogol asks what will be its destination.

果戈理把他的祖国比作奔驰的三套车，并且问它的目的地在何方。

The story was written by Russian author Gogol in the 1840s during a self-imposed exile to Geneva and Rome.

这个故事是俄罗斯作家Gogol写于19世纪50年代 当时他自我流放到日内瓦和罗马.

Who wants to be a wise man, who have no time to naughty naughty prank; that is should perish of itself. - Gogol.

谁希望成为一个具有智慧的人，谁就没有时间去淘气胡闹；淘气胡闹是应该自行消灭的。——果戈理。