Selected Short Stories: Russian Edition

by Nikolai Gogol, Will Jonson (Editor)

Overview

Collected here are Gogol's finest tales - stories which combine the wide-eyed, credulous imagi-nation of the peasant with the sardonic social criticism of the city dweller - allowing readers to experience anew the unmistakable genius of a writer who paved the way of Dostoevsky and Kakfa. The wholly unique blend of satire and realism that Gogol crafted established his reputa-tion as one of the most daring and inventive writers of his time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781533009838
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	04/30/2016
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.54(d)
Language:	Russian

About the Author

Novelist, dramatist, and satirist Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) was a Russian writer of Ukrainian ancestry whose works deeply influenced later Russian literature through powerful depictions of a society dominated by petty bureaucracy and base corruption. Gogol’s best-known short stories — "The Nose" and "The Overcoat" — display strains of Surrealism and the grotesque, while his greatest novel, Dead Souls, is one of the founding books of Russian realism.