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In a story by this author, a character paints “beauties” for a Persian shopkeeper in exchange for opium to cure his insomnia. No one attends the funeral of an artist, who (10[1])cuts his throat with a razor after a prostitute declines (10[1])his marriage proposal, in a story by this author. A story by this author ends with a policeman following a giant-fisted ghost until it confronts him. (-5[1])A “certain clerk” (10[1])from a “certain department” (-5[1])develops a delirious fever after (10[1])being berated by (-5[1])a “Person of Consequence” (10[1])in a story by this (-5[1])author. (10[1]-5[1])The title object is wrapped (10[1])in cloth and thrown off the St. Isaac’s Bridge in a story by this author (10[1])before it is found in a loaf of bread by a (-5[1])barber. (10[2])For 10 points, (10[4]0[1])name this author, whose many stories set in St. Petersburg include “Nevsky Prospekt,” “The Nose,” (10[1]-5[1])and “The Overcoat.” ■END■

ANSWER: Nikolai Gogol [or Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol]
<European Literature>
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