And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon by Nikolai Gogol

And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon by Nikolai Gogol

Fresh, stylish new translations of Gogol's greatest short stories collected in a beautiful edition

'One of the most profound, and influential, writers Russia has ever produced, he is probably also the funniest' Guardian

'The most morally complete writer: baffled, outraged, reverent, mock-didactic, mocking, all at once. He honours life by feeling no one way about it' GEORGE SAUNDERS

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 Ukranian countryside. Together, they reveal Gogol's marvellously 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.

"Gogol’s prose works feature a fiendishly complex narrative structureIn his engaging new versions, Oliver Ready deploys a rich vocabulary. . . . Along the way, there is much to savour." — Times Literary Supplement

"I wish I had written the story 'The Overcoat'. The sensibility of that story is perfect . . . spontaneous and funny and also formally very experimental" - George Saunders

"One of the most profound, and influential, writers Russia has ever produced, he is also probably the funniest" - Guardian

"The greatest artist that Russia has yet produced" - Vladimir Nabokov

Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol was born in 1809 in Ukraine, and moved to St Petersburg after his studies in 1828 to work in an obscure government ministry. His first collection of stories, Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka (1831), made him famous, and he went on to write several further collections of stories, as well as the play The Government Inspector. Part I of his great, and only novel, Dead Souls, appeared in 1842. In his later life he was increasingly tormented both physically and psychologically, and he burned much of his writing, including part II of Dead Souls. He died in 1852, possibly from self-starvation.

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ISBN 13	9781782275152
ISBN 10	1782275150
Title	And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon
Author	Nikolai Gogol
Series	Pushkin Collection
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pushkin Press
Year published	2021-04-06
Number of pages	224
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