Talk:The Overcoat

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The final paragraph of this article (visible only when editing) requires both citation and copy-editing to conform to the standard set by the rest of the article. Thank you in advance for your help. Grammar nazi 04:27, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Changed the trivia about Lahiri's book "The Namesake" to say the name of the protagonist is Gogol (previously it listed the name of the protagonist as Nikolai Gogol, which is incorrect -- it is Gogol Ganguly). -- 9 July 2006

[edit] Personal interpretations

I think that these sentences are out of place in this article. "The overcoat is a philosophical tale in the tradition of a stoic philosopher or Schopenhauer. It is a powerful tale of vanity, expectation and illusion. Perhaps Bob Dylan said it best, "If you ain't got nothin, you got nothin to lose.""66.75.161.29 02:32, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

You're right - a user added that section recently. According to WP:NOT, personal interpretations are not allowed on wikipedia, so that section should only mention the interpretations of notable critics, and should give references. I'm kinda loath to remove too much of it (I'm not an expert on Gogol) so I'm just removing the last sentence, which sounds far too much like an essay. Esn 04:43, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ukrainian?

I think that the declaration that Gogol was a Ukrainian writer is erroneous, because it gives the impression that he was an actual Ukrainian author, though he never produced a single work in the Ukranian language. I think is more appropriate to lable him a Russian writer of Ukranian origin. I have removed the description in favor of Russian, which is how Gogol is described in his dedicated page.

MEvL —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 140.180.147.58 (talk) 07:49, 16 January 2007 (UTC).