The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol by Nikolai Gogol

The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol by 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.

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ISBN 13	9780375706158
ISBN 10	0375706151
Title	The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
Author	Nikolai Gogol
Series	Vintage Classics
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1999-06-29
Number of pages	464
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