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Petersburg Tales: New Translation Nikolai Gogol

Petersburg Tales: New Translation By Nikolai Gogol

Petersburg Tales: New Translation by Nikolai Gogol


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Summary

Also including the 'Diary of Madman', this new translation of 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.

Petersburg Tales: New Translation Summary

Petersburg Tales: New Translation by Nikolai Gogol

Written in the 1830s and early 1840s, these comic stories tackle life behind the cold and elegant facade 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.

Petersburg Tales: New Translation Reviews

Gogol was a strange creature, but then genius is always strange. -- Vladimir Nabokov

About Nikolai Gogol

One of the leading figures in nineteenth-century Russian literature, Nikolai Gogol (1809-52) is best known for his satirical masterpiece, Dead Souls, and humorous plays and short stories such as The Government Inspector and The Overcoat, written in a highly original and often experimental style.

Table of Contents

Contains: Nevsky Prospect, The Nose, The Overcoat, Diary of a Madman

Additional information

GOR005648611
9781847493491
1847493491
Petersburg Tales: New Translation by Nikolai Gogol
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Alma Books Ltd
2014-03-15
192
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