Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, & Selected Stories
Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, & Selected Stories

Author: Nikolay Gogol

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2005-12-01

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 014191002X

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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 Enigma of Gogol
The Enigma of Gogol

Author: Richard Peace

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-04-30

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 9780521110235

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Peace argues that Gogol's ambiguous humanist position stems from the cultural impact of Romanticism.

The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

Author: Nikolai Gogol

Publisher: Everyman's Library

Published: 2008-10-07

Total Pages: 475

ISBN-13: 0307269698

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Collected here are Gogol’s finest tales—stories that combine the wide-eyed, credulous imagination of the peasant with the sardonic social criticism of the city dweller—allowing readers to experience anew the unmistakable genius of a writer who paved the way for Dostoevsky and Kafka. All of Gogol’s most memorable creations are here: the minor official who misplaces his nose, the downtrodden clerk whose life is changed by the acquisition of a splendid new overcoat, the wily madman who becomes convinced that a dog can tell him everything he needs to know. The wholly unique blend of the mundane and the supernatural that Gogol crafted established his reputation as one of the most daring and inventive writers of his time. From the acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Crime and Punishment, and The Brothers Karamazov, a brilliant translation of Nikolai Gogol’s short fiction.

The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

Author: Nikolai Gogol

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2011-08-17

Total Pages: 463

ISBN-13: 0307803368

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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.

Petersburg Tales: New Translation
Petersburg Tales: New Translation

Author: Nikolai Gogol

Publisher: Alma Classics

Published: 2014-09-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781847493491

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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.

Gogol From the Twentieth Century
Gogol From the Twentieth Century

Author: Robert A. Maguire

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2022-03-08

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 0691242933

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The description for this book, Gogol From the Twentieth Century: Eleven Essays, will be forthcoming.

A Shout in the Street
A Shout in the Street

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Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1991-01-01

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780520075535

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A remarkable meditation on the topography of the modern city, A Shout in the Street offers a close and sensitive examination of four urban landscapes--London, Paris, Leningrad, and New York. Peter Jukes pursues the essence of these international metropolises in an assemblage comprised of his own evocative essays, excerpts from modern masters of the essay form such as Benjamin, Barthes, and Sontag, and period photographs. A Shout in the Street, with a keenly cinematic eye, searches out not just the glittering facades, but the vitality of thoroughfares and neighborhoods.

Gogol Three Plays
Gogol Three Plays

Author: Nikolai Gogol

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2014-03-10

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1408148617

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This collection contains Gogol's three completed plays The Government Inspector, which satirises a corrupt society was regarded by Nabokov as the greatest play in the Russian language and is still widely studied in schools and universities: "I resolved to gather into one heap everything that was bad in Russia which I was aware of at that time, all the injustices being perpetrated in those places, and in those circumstances that especially cried out for justice, and tried to hold them all up to ridicule, at one fell swoop." (Nikolai Gogol) Marriage is a comedy about the business of matchmaking and matrimony; The Gamblers is an exoriating piece about the excesses of the Moscow aristocracy. "Two and two make five, if not the square root of five, and it all happens quite naturally in Gogol's world... Gogol was a strange creature, but then genius is always strange" (Vladimir Nabokov)

Cultures of Forgery
Cultures of Forgery

Author: Judith Ryan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1135458278

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In Cultures of Forgery, leading literary studies and cultural studies scholars examine the double meaning of the word "forge"-to create or to form, on the one hand, and to make falsely, on the other.

Petersburg Tales
Petersburg Tales

Author: Николай Васильевич Гоголь

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 9780192835529

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This volume brings together Gogol's Petersburg Tales with his two most famous plays, all of which guide us through the streets of St. Petersburg, the city erected by force and ingenuity on the marshes of the Neva estuary. Something of the deception and violence of the city's creation seems to lurk beneath its harmonious facade, however, and it confounds its inhabitants with false dreams and absurd visions. This new translation by Christopher English brings out the unique vitality and humor of Russia's finest comic writer. --Publisher.