Question

A story by this author ends after a hungover man who promised to host a dinner party is found by his angry guests hiding in the title vehicle. In a story by this author, a man becomes a monk to purify his soul after painting a religious scene in which every figure had demonic eyes. In that story by this author, a painter abandons his style and paints for aristocrats after a bag of money is found in the frame of a cursed portrait of a moneylender. Near the end of a story by this author, a cobbler named (15[1])(*) Hoffmann helps beat up an officer for dancing with the wife of a tinsmith named Schiller. This author of the collection Arabesques (10[1])wrote a story in which a painter who takes opium to dream of a dark-haired prostitute is contrasted with Lieutenant Pirogov, who followed a blonde woman down the title street. (-5[1])For 10 (10[1])points, name this author who included the story “Nevsky Prospect” in his Petersburg Tales. ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Nikolai Gogol [or Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol] (The first story is “The Carriage.” The story in the second and third sentences is “The Portrait.”)
<Literature - European Literature - Short Fiction>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Mattias EhatammYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruitThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange9815
Henry AtkinsCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole countrySimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut12010
Erik ChristensenI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks upTensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken150-5
Raymond ChenShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA InterfereRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers15210
Caleb OttTensei Shitara Flashcard Data KenI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up16710
Yihong ChenModerator Can't Neg me While in Alphaas rational as the square root of two power bottoms16710

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