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The Nose and Other Stories (Russian Library) by Nikolai Gogol [Nikolai Gogol] is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Nose and Other Stories (Russian Library) about?

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 rev

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Nikolai Gogol [Nikolai Gogol]
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Published
2020
Language
EN
ISBN
9780231190695
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Literary Collections, Literary Fiction