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Memoirs; or, Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol Pdf
This early work by Nikolai Gogol was originally published in 1835 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Memoirs; or, Diary of a Madman' is a short story about the life of a minor civil servant during the repressive era of Nicholas I. Following the format of a diary, the story shows the descent of the protagonist, Poprishchin, into insanity. Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was born in Sorochintsi, Ukraine in 1809. In 1831, Gogol brought out the first volume of his Ukrainian stories, 'Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka'. It met with immediate success, and he followed it a year later with a second volume. 'The Nose' is regarded as a masterwork of comic short fiction, and 'The Overcoat' is now seen as one of the greatest short stories ever written; some years later, Dostoyevsky famously stated "We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'." He is seen by many contemporary critics as one of the greatest short story writers who has ever lived, and the Father of Russia's Golden Age of Realism.
‘Memoirs of a Madman’ is a fascinating short following Poprishchin, a minor civil servant, as he descends into insanity. Unique in Golgol’s collection, it is the only story he wrote completely from the first person in the form of a number of diary entries. Constantly ridiculed by friends and repressed by the government of Tsarist Russia, he confides all in his journal documenting his slow decline in to insanity. As the only account we have is Poprishchin’s, we have no idea if the continually fantastical events happening before us are real or simply figments of his imagination. It is a fascinating novel, equally humourous as it is farcical, from talking dogs to tea-thirsty cows if you liked Leonardo Dicaprio’s ‘Shutter island’ you’ll love this short. Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was one of the first writers to adopt surrealism and the grotesque in his work. As well as being one of Russia’s most acclaimed authors, he is acknowledged as one of the founders of the short story genre alongside Nathaniel Hawthorne and E.T.A Hoffman. His early writing was largely inspired by his time spent growing up in Ukraine, it’s culture and it’s folklore, while his later writing targeted and satirised the political corruption of the Russian Empire. His unique and strange form of writing similar to the ‘ostranenie’ technique, allowed his audience to see familiar topics and stories from a completely new perspective. Acknowledged for his brilliance by many acclaimed authors such as Fedor Dostoevsky his best works include ‘Dead Souls’, ‘Taras Bulba’ and ‘Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka’.
Gogol's short story, Diary of a Madman, adapted for the stage. ""This is a play about an individual's descent into madness, brought to life by a brilliant trio of actor David Bromley, director Scott Le Crass, and author Howard Colyer. But what makes the play interesting is that Gogol's protagonist defies the literary mould: he has a condition usually reserved for tormented kings and ladies imprisoned in the attic. Rather than being ordinary, he is 'extraordinary', a term peppering Howard Colyer's script. Through Poprishchin, Gogol portrays his contempt for government and bureaucracy, and allows this lowly civil servant to become a leader...at least in his own mind."" Emma Slater, London Theatre, reviewing the production at the Jack Studio.
This is a new translation from the original Russian manuscript of Gogol's work "Diary of a Madman", sometimes translated "Notes of a Madman". This edition contains an Afterword by the Translator, a timeline of Gogol's life and works and an Index of Gogol's individual works. Originally published in a collection called "Petersburg stories", this story is widely considered to be one of Gogol's greatest short stories. It is a surrealist, farcical short story that follows a protagonist's first-person perspective journal entries into his descent into madness.
In an age of ridiculous ambition and ubiquitous work, Gogol's comic tale is a loser's Hamlet. It burrows into our wildest fantasies and finds wonderful play in the gap between who we are and who we think we are.
Author : David C. Stahl Publisher : University of Hawaii Press Page : 398 pages File Size : 47,9 Mb Release : 2003-02-28 Category : History ISBN : 0824825403
Although still virtually unknown in the West, Ôoka Shôhei (1909-1988) is one of Japan's most important and influential writers and social critics. The Burdens of Survival is both a seminal English-language study of this preeminent literary figure and one of the first scholarly works to thoroughly examine the war literature of a major Japanese veteran-author. Drawing on Robert Jay Lifton's work on traumatic experience and survivor psychology, the book tells the illuminating story of Ôoka's arduous journey that began with guilt-ridden survival as a prisoner of war in the Philippines and culminated some twenty-five years later in the fruitful completion of survivor mission. David C. Stahl examines Ôoka's battlefield memoirs, including the established war classic Fires on the Plain (1952), in terms of extreme experience, survivor guilt, bearing witness, and the "inability to mourn." Writing enabled Ôoka to give cathartic expression to his haunting battlefield experience and made it possible for him to move from blame-shifting to empathy and mourning. The lengthy, exhaustively researched historical work The Battle for Leyte Island (1967-1969) faithfully details the personal and collective experience of battle, depravation, and loss, and clarifies who and what was ultimately responsible for defeat. Toward the end of this work and Return to Mindoro Island (1969), Ooka draws attention to the outstanding obligations owed by his countrymen to the war dead and suggests how they can be fulfilled by public confrontation, learning the lessons of defeat, and using them to rectify lingering social and political evils.
From the author of the definitive biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky, never-before-published lectures that provide an accessible introduction to the Russian writer's major works Joseph Frank (1918–2013) was perhaps the most important Dostoevsky biographer, scholar, and critic of his time. His never-before-published Stanford lectures on the Russian novelist's major works provide an unparalleled and accessible introduction to some of literature's greatest masterpieces. Presented here for the first time, these illuminating lectures begin with an introduction to Dostoevsky's life and literary influences and go on to explore the breadth of his career—from Poor Folk, The Double, and The House of the Dead to Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov. Written in a conversational style that combines literary analysis and cultural history, Lectures on Dostoevsky places the novels and their key characters and scenes in a rich context. Bringing Joseph Frank’s unmatched knowledge and understanding of Dostoevsky's life and writings to a new generation of readers, this remarkable book will appeal to anyone seeking to understand Dostoevsky and his times. The book also includes Frank's favorite review of his Dostoevsky biography, "Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky" by David Foster Wallace, originally published in the Village Voice.
Richard Casimir Lewanski,New York Public Library. Slavonic Division
Author : Richard Casimir Lewanski,New York Public Library. Slavonic Division Publisher : New York : New York Public Library, and F. Ungar Publishing Company Page : 656 pages File Size : 52,5 Mb Release : 1967 Category : Reference ISBN : STANFORD:36105127837123
After-Dinner Conversation by José Asunción Silva Pdf
Lost in a shipwreck in 1895, rewritten before the author's suicide in 1896, and not published until 1925, José Asunción Silva's After-Dinner Conversation (De sobremesa) is one of Latin America's finest fin de siècle novels and the first one to be translated into English. Perhaps the single best work for understanding turn-of-the-twentieth-century writing in South America, After-Dinner Conversation is also cited as the continent's first psychological novel and an outstanding example of modernista fiction and the Decadent sensibility. Semi-autobiographical and more important for style than plot, After-Dinner Conversation is the diary of a Decadent sensation-collector in exile in Paris who undertakes a quest to find his beloved Helen, a vision whom his fevered imagination sees as his salvation. Along the way, he struggles with irreconcilable urges and temptations that pull him in every direction while he endures an environment indifferent or hostile to spiritual and intellectual pursuits, as did the modernista writers themselves. Kelly Washbourne's excellent translation preserves Silva's lush prose and experimental style. In the introduction, one of the most wide-ranging in Silva criticism, Washbourne places the life and work of Silva in their literary and historical contexts, including an extended discussion of how After-Dinner Conversation fits within Spanish American modernismo and the Decadent movement. Washbourne's perceptive comments and notes also make the novel accessible to general readers, who will find the work surprisingly fresh more than a century after its composition.
Diary of a Madman by Nikolai Nikolai Gogol,Universal Universal literature Pdf
How It All Goes Down The story opens with Aksenty Ivanovich Poprishchin writing in his diary about an adventure that has just taken place. He is very late to work (did we mention it's a soul-crushing job?). On the way to the office he sees his director's daughter getting out of a carriage and going into a clothing store. Poprishchin is instantly infatuated. But he's embarrassed to be seen wearing his ratty overcoat, so he hides. Poprishchin hears a little voice, and realizes that the daughter's dog, Medji, and another dog, Fidele, are talking. He reasons that such things can happen; after all, he's read reports of talking fish and cows. But when the dogs start talking about writing each other letters, this stops him cold. At this point, Poprishchin admits he sometimes hears or sees things others don't, but he still seems to be able to have some rational thoughts. Poprishchin writes in his diary about how much he hates the various people at work. He hates the section chief for telling him he's an ugly loser. He hates the treasurer for refusing to give him an advance on his salary. He hates the lackeys (the servants) for not treating him like a nobleman. He hates other clerks for not being as sophisticated as he is. He also writes about his daily routines, which go something like this: show up early or late to work, sharpen the director's pens, push some paper, leave sometime in the afternoon, go do something "cultured" like copying poetry or seeing a variety show, maybe stalk the director's daughter in her apartment, or go home and lie in bed in the dark obsessing about all of the above. This routine starts to break down when he decides to get his hands on the dogs' letters. He goes to the building where Fidele's owner lives, demanding to speak with her dog. He can't imagine why she's alarmed or why the dog refuses to talk to him. He pushes his way into the apartment, grabs a bunch of letters in the dog's basket, and leaves. The dog still has nothing to say-she bites Poprishchin in the leg. He starts reading the dogs' letters, hoping to find out more things about his director's social world and political involvements. He especially wants to get the inside scoop about the director's daughter. The dogs have a lot to say about all that. They write that the director is a boring guy but that he just received a ceremonial ribbon (probably from the emperor) and is feeling pretty good about himself. But the real news is that the daughter has fallen madly in love and is going to marry a kammerjunker, a hilarious word and a low-ranking member of the emperor's court. Poprishchin is shocked. He can't imagine what a kammerjunker has that he doesn't have (um, a title, money, good looks?). This guy can't be anything special; what can she possibly see in him? Poprishchin reads in the newspapers that Spain is now without a king because of some trouble finding an heir. He can't stop obsessing about it. Suddenly, it all makes sense: he, Poprishchin, is not just a government clerk-he is actually the king of Spain, Ferdinand VIII! He makes himself a royal robe by cutting up his government uniform, and waits for the Spanish delegation to arrive to escort him to the Spanish court. He reveals his royal identity to his housekeeper, who of course is freaked out at the sight of him in his not-quite-ready-for-Project-Runway king's get-up. Some time later, he says he has arrived in Spain, which, he tells us, is really the same country as China. Spain has strange customs: everyone's head is shaved; people constantly beat him with sticks and drip cold water on his head. He thinks he has fallen into the hands of the Grand Inquisitor. It sounds to us like he is not in Spain (or China for that matter), but actually in an insane asylum. The diary ends with a couple of jumbled entries and a desperate, hallucinating Poprishchin pleading with his mother to come save him.
Diary Of A Madman, Book 3 by Jaysen True Blood Pdf
A little bit of everything. Political reform ideas. Opinion pieces on television programming. Show ideas. And more. Jay shows what he believes in and why. From education and business to politics and economic reform, Jay shows why he is a thinker, a visionary.
Author : Charles Hamilton Publisher : University Press of Kentucky Page : 232 pages File Size : 55,9 Mb Release : 2014-07-11 Category : History ISBN : 9780813150543
Now for the first time, the complete expose of the most daring and successful forgery of all time. For seven days in April 1983, the sensational discovery of Hitler's sixty-two volumes of secret diaries dominated the news headlines of the world. Scholars hailed the diaries as the greatest find of the century, a historical bonanza that would entirely alter our views of Hitler and the Third Reich. Shocked readers followed daily installments showing that Hitler knew nothing about the Holocaust. Then, in an abrupt reversal, the diaries were proved to be bogus!
