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Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories is a bizarre and colorful collection containing the complete Ukrainian and Petersburg stories by the iconic Russian writer Nikolai Gogol.
About Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories is a bizarre and colorful collection containing the complete Ukrainian and Petersburg stories by the iconic Russian writer Nikolai Gogol. From the witty and Kafkaesque The Nose, where a civil servant wakes up one day to find his nose missing, to the moving and evocative The Overcoat, about a sad and reclusive man whose only ambition is to replace his old, threadbare coat, Gogol gives us a unique and satirical take on the absurd. Gogol’s tales of inconsequential civil servants, mixing the everyday with the surreal, foreshadow the work of his later acolytes, Bulgakov and Kafka. None is more cutting than the main story, The Diary of a Madman, where a government clerk descends to insanity, claiming that he can communicate with dogs and that he is next in line to the throne of Spain.
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More by Nikolai Gogol
The Nose: Gogol uses the absurd in expert form to show us the problems with society, status, class and their places in the world around us.
Old Fashioned Landowners: Gogols story of an aging couple who must confont the harsh lessons of mortality.
The Nose
Diary of a Madman: From their pens to your ears, genius in every story
Nikolai Gogol - A Short Story Collection: The absurdist Masters most compelling tale. Ukranian born short story great that influenced the likes of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky.
The Cloak aka The Overcoat
St John's Eve: From their pens to your ears, genius in every story
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- Diary of a Madman and Other Stories is by Nikolai Gogol.
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