The Collected Tales And Plays Of Nikolai Gogol

Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-17
Category : 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.

Author : Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Russian literature
ISBN : OCLC:61578094

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Collected Tales and Plays by Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ Pdf

Eighteen tales and three plays, with a critical biographical introduction by leonard J. Kent. The Constance Garnett translation revised throughout by the editor. For contents, see Author Catalog.

Author : Nikolai Vassilievitx Gogol
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:806337562

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The Collected Tales and Plays of Nikolai Gogol by Nikolai Vassilievitx Gogol Pdf

Author : Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:318011763

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The Collected Tales and Plays of Nikolai Gogol by Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ Pdf

Author : Nikola? Vasil?evich Gogol?
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:908300495

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The Collected Tales and Plays of Nikolai Gogol by Nikola? Vasil?evich Gogol? Pdf

Author : Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ,Leonard J. Kent
Publisher : Octagon Press, Limited
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0374931674

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The Collected Tales and Plays of Nikolai Gogol by Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ,Leonard J. Kent Pdf

Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307269690

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The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol by Nikolai Gogol Pdf

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.

Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 184159315X

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Gogol Collected Tales by Nikolai Gogol Pdf

A new translation of stories by a 19th century Russian master. One story is on a madman convinced that a dog can tell him everything he needs to know, another is on a downtrodden clerk whose life is changed by a new overcoat.

Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher : Alma Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 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 : Николай Васильевич Гоголь
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0810111594

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Gogol by Николай Васильевич Гоголь Pdf

These translations of Gogol's plays restore the vitality of Gogol's language and humour, finally allowing his dramatic art to speak directly to Western readers, directors, actors and theatre-goers.

Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408148617

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Gogol Three Plays by Nikolai Gogol Pdf

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)

Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Nikolay Gogol
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,8 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 : Николай Васильевич Гоголь
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 52,8 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 Vasil'evich Gogol
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1847085490

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The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol by Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol Pdf

Collected here are superb new translations of the finest tales - from the founding master of Russian surreal allegory and irony