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Diary of a Madman The Government Inspector Selected Stories
Author | : Nikolay Gogol |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2005-12-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780141910024 |
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Author, dramatist and satirist, Nikolay Gogol (1809-1852) deeply influenced later Russian literature with his powerful depictions of a society dominated by petty beaurocracy and base corruption. This volume includes both his most admired short fiction and his most famous drama. A biting and frequently hilarious political satire, The Government Inspector has been popular since its first performance and was regarded by Nabokov as the greatest Russian play every written. The stories gathered here, meanwhile, range from comic to tragic and describe the isolated lives of low-ranking clerks, lunatics and swindlers. They include Diary of a Madman, an amusing but disturbing exploration of insanity; Nevsky Prospect, a depiction of an artist besotted with a prostitute; and The Overcoat, a moving consideration of poverty that powerfully influenced Dostoevsky and later Russian literature.
Diary of a Madman The Government Inspector Selected Stories
Author | : Nikolay Gogol |
Publsiher | : ePenguin |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2005-12-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0140449078 |
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Author, dramatist and satirist, Nikolay Gogol (1809-1852) deeply influenced later Russian literature with his powerful depictions of a society dominated by petty beaurocracy and base corruption. This volume includes both his most admired short fiction and his most famous drama. A biting and frequently hilarious political satire, The Government Inspector has been popular since its first performance and was regarded by Nabokov as the greatest Russian play every written. The stories gathered here, meanwhile, range from comic to tragic and describe the isolated lives of low-ranking clerks, lunatics and swindlers. They include Diary of a Madman, an amusing but disturbing exploration of insanity; Nevsky Prospect, a depiction of an artist besotted with a prostitute; and The Overcoat, a moving consideration of poverty that powerfully influenced Dostoevsky and later Russian literature.
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
Author | : Nikolai Gogol |
Publsiher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 463 |
Release | : 2011-08-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780307803368 |
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Using, or rather mimicking, traditional forms of storytelling Gogol created stories that are complete within themselves and only tangentially connected to a meaning or moral. His work belongs to the school of invention, where each twist and turn of the narrative is a surprise unfettered by obligation to an overarching theme. Selected from Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka, Mirgorod, and the Petersburg tales and arranged in order of composition, the thirteen stories in The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogolencompass the breadth of Gogol's literary achievement. From the demon-haunted “St. John's Eve ” to the heartrending humiliations and trials of a titular councilor in “The Overcoat,” Gogol's knack for turning literary conventions on their heads combined with his overt joy in the art of story telling shine through in each of the tales. This translation, by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, is as vigorous and darkly funny as the original Russian. It allows readers to experience anew the unmistakable genius of a writer who paved the way for Dostevsky and Kafka.
The Carriage in Diary of a Madman The Government Inspector Selected Stories Translated with Notes by Ronald Wilks with an Introduction by Robert A Maguire Penguin Classics
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:926486863 |
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The Overcoat in Diary of a Madman The Government Inspector Selected Stories Translated with Notes by Ronald Wilks with an Introduction by Robert A Maguire Penguin Classics
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:926486998 |
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Selected Stories
Author | : Alice Munro |
Publsiher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Classical fiction |
ISBN | : 9780099541097 |
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Short Stories. This first-ever selection of Alice Munro's stories sums up her genius. Her territory is the secrets that cackle beneath the facade of everyday lives, the pain and promises, loves and fears of apparently ordinary men and women whom she renders extraordinary and unforgettable.
Petersburg Tales New Translation
Author | : Nikolai Gogol |
Publsiher | : Alma Classics |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-09-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1847493491 |
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Written in the 1830s and early 1840s, these comic stories tackle life behind the cold and elegant façade of the Imperial capital from the viewpoints of various characters, such as a collegiate assessor who one day finds that his nose has detached itself from his face and risen the ranks to become a state councillor (‘The Nose’), a painter and a lieutenant whose romantic pursuits meet with contrasting degrees of success (‘Nevsky Prospect’) and a lowly civil servant whose existence desperately unravels when he loses his prized new coat (‘The Overcoat’). Also including the ‘Diary of Madman’, these Petersburg Tales paint a critical yet hilarious portrait of a city riddled with pomposity and self-importance, masterfully juxtaposing nineteenth-century realism with madcap surrealism, and combining absurdist farce with biting satire.
The Nose and Other Stories
Author | : Nikolai Gogol |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2020-09-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780231549066 |
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Nikolai Gogol’s novel Dead Souls and play The Government Inspector revolutionized Russian literature and continue to entertain generations of readers around the world. Yet Gogol’s peculiar genius comes through most powerfully in his short stories. By turns—or at once—funny, terrifying, and profound, the tales collected in The Nose and Other Stories are among the greatest achievements of world literature. These stories showcase Gogol’s vivid, haunting imagination: an encounter with evil in a darkened church, a downtrodden clerk who dreams only of a new overcoat, a nose that falls off a face and reappears around town on its own, outranking its former owner. Written between 1831 and 1842, they span the colorful setting of rural Ukraine to the unforgiving urban landscape of St. Petersburg to the ancient labyrinth of Rome. Yet they share Gogol’s characteristic obsessions—city crowds, bureaucratic hierarchy and irrationality, the devil in disguise—and a constant undercurrent of the absurd. Susanne Fusso’s translations pay careful attention to the strangeness and wonder of Gogol's style, preserving the inimitable humor and oddity of his language. The Nose and Other Stories reveals why Russian writers from Dostoevsky to Nabokov have returned to Gogol as the cornerstone of their unparalleled literary tradition.