Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, & Selected Stories

Nikolay Gogol, Ronald Wilks

  • Penguin

  • Date de publication : 2005-12-01

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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.

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Auteur
Nikolay  Gogol , Ronald  Wilks
Marque
Penguin
Collection
n.c
Parution
2005-12-01
Pages
368 pages
EAN papier
9780140449075
Langue
Anglais
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9780141910024
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8,49 €
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Nb pages copiables 36
Nb pages imprimables 36
Taille du fichier 1905 Ko
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Defaut-Illustration Nikolay Gogol
Defaut-Illustration Ronald Wilks
Nikolai Gogol (1809-52) was born in the Ukraine and left for St Peterburg at the age of 19 where he published a collection of short stories and for a short time held the post of professor of history at the university. Gogol's experience of life in St Petersburg informed his savagely satirical play, The Government Inspector, and a series of brilliant short stories including Nevsky Prospekt and Notes of a Madman. From 1836 to 48, Gogol lived abroad, mainly in Rome, where he was working on his comic epic Dead Souls - a work he wrestled with for the rest of his life before renouncing literature and burning parts of the manuscript shortly before he died.
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