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The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories is a bizarre and colourful collection containing the finest short stories by the iconic Russian writer Nikolai Gogol. From the witty and Kafkaesque The Nose, where a civil servant wakes up one day to find his nose missing, to the moving and evocative The Overcoat, about a reclusive man whose only ambition is to replace his old, threadbare coat, Gogol gives us a unique take on the absurd. Gogol’s tales of inconsequential civil servants, mixing the everyday with the surreal, foreshadow the work of his later acolytes, Bulgakov and Kafka. None is more cutting than the main story, The Diary of a Madman, where a government clerk descends to insanity, claiming that he can communicate with dogs and that he is next in line to the throne of Spain.
© 2018 Naxos Audiobooks (Lydbok): 9781781981535
Oversetter: Constance Garnett
Utgivelsesdato
Lydbok: 1. august 2018
3.8
Klassikere
The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories is a bizarre and colourful collection containing the finest short stories by the iconic Russian writer Nikolai Gogol. From the witty and Kafkaesque The Nose, where a civil servant wakes up one day to find his nose missing, to the moving and evocative The Overcoat, about a reclusive man whose only ambition is to replace his old, threadbare coat, Gogol gives us a unique take on the absurd. Gogol’s tales of inconsequential civil servants, mixing the everyday with the surreal, foreshadow the work of his later acolytes, Bulgakov and Kafka. None is more cutting than the main story, The Diary of a Madman, where a government clerk descends to insanity, claiming that he can communicate with dogs and that he is next in line to the throne of Spain.
© 2018 Naxos Audiobooks (Lydbok): 9781781981535
Oversetter: Constance Garnett
Utgivelsesdato
Lydbok: 1. august 2018
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28. apr. 2020
Highly recommended. Strange, unsettling and, often, laugh-out-loud funny. Brilliantly written and an adequate translation as far as I can assess. Includes the following stories:-From "Dikanka": St. John's Eve, Eve before Christmas, Terrible Vengeance, and Schponka.-From "Mirgorod": All except Taras Bulba.-The entire "Petersburg cycle".
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