No writer has captured the absurdity of the human condition as acutely as Nikolai Gogol. In a lively new translation by Oliver Ready, this collection contains his great classic stories - 'The Overcoat', 'The Nose' and 'Diary of a Madman' - alongside lesser known gems depicting life in the Russian and Ukrainian countryside. Together, they reveal Gogol's marvelously skewed perspective, moving between the urban and the rural with painfully sharp humour and scorching satire. Strikingly modern in his depictions of society's shambolic structures, Gogol plunders the depths of bureaucratic and domestic banalities to unearth moments of dark comedy and outrageous corruption. Defying categorisation, the stories in this collection range from the surreal to the satirical to the grotesque, united in their exquisite psychological acuteness and tender insights into the bizarre irrationalities of the human soul.

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Mediatyp: Bok
Bandtyp: Pocket
Författare: Nikolai Gogol
Förlag: Faber & Faber
Språk: Engelska
Omfång: 224 sidor
Mått (bxhxd): 129x198x18 mm
Vikt: 205 gram
Illustrerad: Nej

Streckkod: 9781805330332
SKU: 787407