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The Nose (Annotated with Biography)
"The Nose" is a satirical short story by Nikolai Gogol. Written between 1835 and 1836, it tells of a St. Petersburg official whose nose leaves his face and develops a life of its own. Dmitri Shostakovich's opera The Nose, first performed in 1930, is based on this story. A short film based on the story was made by Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker in 1963 and used pinscreen animation.
Gogol From the Twentieth Century
The description for this book, Gogol From the Twentieth Century: Eleven Essays, will be forthcoming.
7 best short stories by Nikolai Gogol
Welcome to the 7 Best Short Stories book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. This edition is dedicated to the uruguayan author Nikolai Gogol. Nikolai Gogol was a Russian novelist, short story writer and playwright of Ukrainian origin. All his work is founded on realism, but a realism of his own, with traces of what would become surrealism. Works selected for this book: - The Nose; - The Viy; - The Cloak; - Old-Fashioned Farmers; - The Overcoat; - Memoirs of a Madman; - The Mysterious Portrait. This book also contains biographical comments by William Ralston Shedden-Ralston and William Lyon Phelps. If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!
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Nevsky Prospekt (Avenue)
In this Petersburg tale, Gogol dissects the titular thoroughfare’s dual nature: a glittering façade masking moral decay. Two protagonists—the artist Piskaryov, who idealizes a prostitute as his muse, and the officer Pirogov, who pursues a mechanic’s wife—embody contrasting responses to urban illusion. Piskaryov’s descent into despair after recognizing the woman’s vulgarity critiques romantic naiveté, while Pirogov’s resilience despite humiliation satirizes bourgeois complacency. Gogol’s bifurcated structure mirrors the city’s fragmentation, where beauty and squalor coexist without synthesis. The story’s unflinching duality—a world where ideals are either shattered or ...
The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol, Volume 1
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'.
The Life and Times of Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Gogol is considered the father of Russian realism. He has influenced thousands of writers--but who influenced him? Read about his life in this eBook.
Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Gogol was the most idiosyncratic of the great Russian novelists of the 19th century and lived a tragically short life which was as chaotic as the lives of the characters he created. This biography begins with Gogol's death and ends with his birth, an inverted structure typical of both Gogol and Nabokov. The biographer proceeds to establish the relationship between Gogol and his novels, especially with regard to "nose-consciousness", a peculiar feature of Russian life and letters, which finds its apotheosis in Gogol's own life and prose. There are more expressions and proverbs concerning the nose in Russian than in any other language in the world. Nabokov's style in this biography is comic, but as always leads to serious issues—in this case, an appreciation of the distinctive "sense of the physical" inherent in Gogol's work. Nabokov describes how Gogol's life and literature mingled, and explains the structure and style of Gogol's prose in terms of the novelist's life.
The Inspector-General
The Inspector-General by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol is a satirical play that exposes the corruption, greed, and hypocrisy prevalent in Russian society during the 19th century. Gogol's work is known for its biting social commentary and comedic portrayal of human follies. Key aspects of The Inspector-General may include: Social Critique: The play serves as a scathing critique of the bureaucratic system and government officials in Imperial Russia. Gogol exposes the rampant corruption and incompetence within the administration, highlighting the stark divide between appearance and reality.Humor and Satire: Gogol employs humor and satire to mock the various characters and their absurd actions. Throu...
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
“A superb new translation” (The New Yorker) of stories that allow readers to experience the unmistakable genius of a writer who paved the way for Dostoevsky and Kafka. When Nikolai Gogol left his Ukrainian village in 1828 to seek his fortune in St. Petersburg, he began composing these marvelous stories—tales that combine the wide-eyed, credulous imagination of the peasant with the sardonic social criticism of the city-dweller. Collected here are Gogol’s finest tales—from the demon-haunted “St. John’s Eve” to the strange surrealism of “The Nose,” from the heartrending trials of the copyist in “The Overcoat” to those of the delusional clerk in “The Diary of a Madman.” To this exquisite translation—destined to become the definitive edition of Gogol’s short fiction—Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky bring the same clarity and fidelity to the original that they brought to their brilliant translation of Gogol’s classic novel Dead Souls and their award-winning version of Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov.
