Poor Folk [SEP] language of work or name
Poor Folk
Poor Folk (, "Bednye lyudi"), sometimes translated as "Poor People", is the first novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, written over the span of nine months between 1844 and 1845. Dostoyevsky was in financial difficulty because of his extravagant lifestyle and his developing gambling addiction; although he had produced some translations of foreign novels, they had little success, and he decided to write a novel of his own to try to raise funds.
Inspired by the works of Gogol, Pushkin, and Karamzin
work comedy is somehow explored and includes an appreciable tone, colour and even the language of Gogol and Kvitka". "Through his tale", wrote "The Northern Bee", "Dostoyevsky wanted to utilize Gogol's humour with naive simplicity of the undisturbed Osnovyanenko [pen name of Kvitka]." Another perspective that describes the connection between "Poor Folk" and "The Overcoat" is the position that the former is considered the continuation of the latter, that Dostoevsky picked up where Gogol left off in his tale about