Diary Of A Madman The Government Inspector And Selected Stories

Author : Nikolay Gogol
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141910024

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Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, & Selected Stories by Nikolay Gogol Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 162765268X

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Diary of a Madman, the Government Inspector, and Selected Stories by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nikolay Gogol
Publisher : ePenguin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0140449078

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Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, & Selected Stories by Nikolay Gogol Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:926486863

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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). by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307803368

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The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol by Nikolai Gogol Pdf

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.

Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher : Alma Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1847493491

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Petersburg Tales: New Translation by Nikolai Gogol Pdf

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.

Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780231549066

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The Nose and Other Stories by Nikolai Gogol Pdf

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.

Author : Alice Munro
Publisher : Random House
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Classical fiction
ISBN : 9780099541097

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Selected Stories by Alice Munro Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:926487564

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The Government Inspector: A Comedy in Five Acts [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). by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:926486998

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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). by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:926486978

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Nevsky Prosepekt [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). by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:926486968

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The Nose [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). by Anonim Pdf

Author : Николай Васильевич Гоголь
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1985-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0226300684

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The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol, Volume 1 by Николай Васильевич Гоголь Pdf

This two-volume edition at last brings all of Gogol's fiction (except his novel Dead Souls) together in paperback. Volume one includes Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka, as well as 'Nevsky Prospekt' and 'Diary of a Madman'.

Author : Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465591432

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The Mantle and Other Stories by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol Pdf

As a novel-writer and a dramatist, Gogol appears to me to deserve a minute study, and if the knowledge of Russian were more widely spread, he could not fail to obtain in Europe a reputation equal to that of the best English humorists. A delicate and close observer, quick to detect the absurd, bold in exposing, but inclined to push his fun too far, Gogol is in the first place a very lively satirist. He is merciless towards fools and rascals, but he has only one weapon at his disposalÑirony. This is a weapon which is too severe to use against the merely absurd, and on the other hand it is not sharp enough for the punishment of crime; and it is against crime that Gogol too often uses it. His comic vein is always too near the farcical, and his mirth is hardly contagious. If sometimes he makes his reader laugh, he still leaves in his mind a feeling of bitterness and indignation; his satires do not avenge society, they only make it angry. As a painter of manners, Gogol excels in familiar scenes. He is akin to Teniers and Callot. We feel as though we had seen and lived with his characters, for he shows us their eccentricities, their nervous habits, their slightest gestures. One lisps, another mispronounces his words, and a third hisses because he has lost a front tooth. Unfortunately Gogol is so absorbed in this minute study of details that he too often forgets to subordinate them to the main action of the story. To tell the truth, there is no ordered plan in his works, andÑa strange trait in an author who sets up as a realistÑhe takes no care to preserve an atmosphere of probability. His most carefully painted scenes are clumsily connectedÑthey begin and end abruptly; often the author's great carelessness in construction destroys, as though wantonly, the illusion produced by the truth of his descriptions and the naturalness of his conversations.

Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788726502039

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The Nose by Nikolai Gogol Pdf

"A most extraordinary thing happened in St. Petersburg on the twenty-fifth of March." The opening lines of "The Nose", one of Gogol’s best-known stories, and quite possibly the most absurd, are just as promising as any of his works. The simple yet extraordinary plot follows the story of the civil servant Major Kovalyov who wakes up one morning to discover his nose has left his face and is living a life of its own. Strange as it may seem, the nose has even surpassed him by attaining a higher rank! The story is a brilliant portrayal of the preoccupation with social rank in Imperial Russia, a biting satire of the bureaucrats’ pursuit of higher position within the Table of Ranks. A masterful combination of brilliant words, witty imagination, and unparalleled humor, it remains one of the most striking stories of all times. It is believed to have influenced masterpieces of world literature, including Dostoevsky's "The Double," Stevenson's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", and Kafka’s "Metamorphosis". Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) was a Ukrainian-born Russian humorist, novelist, and dramatist whose work played a crucial role in the direction of Russian literature. He was considered to be one of the leading figures of Russian realism. His novel "Dead Souls", a satire of the political corruption in the Russian Empire, is viewed by many literary historians as the first great Russian novel. Among his contributions to Russian and world literature are the surrealistic and grotesque "The Nose" and "The Mantle", the satirical "The Government Inspector/The Inspector General", the historical novel "Taras Bulba", the comedy "Marriage", the humorous short stories "Diary of a Madman" and "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich". His works have influenced generations of readers and still continue to impress with their subtle psychologism and matchless style.