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And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon: Essential Stories

內容簡介

內容簡介 Fresh, stylish new translations of Gogol's greatest short stories collected in a beautiful edition Admired by writers from Nabokov to Bulgakov to George Saunders, Gogol is considered one of the more enigmatic of the Russian greats. He only wrote one novel, Dead Souls, and destroyed much of his later work, so his stories constitute his major output. In this collection, beautifully and skilfully translated by Oliver Ready, Gogol's three greatest stories - 'The Nose', 'The Overcoat' and 'The Diary of a Madman' - are presented alongside three masterworks from his earlier Ukrainian period - 'St John's Eve', 'Old-World Landowners' and 'The Carriage'. This exquisite selection demonstrates the breadth of Gogol's work with the early stories full of the folklore and mysticism of Little Russia, and the later stories delving into the bureaucratic labyrinth of St Petersburg. Gogol's extraordinary work is characterised by his idiosyncratic, and often very funny sensibility, and these stories offer us his unique, original and marvellously skewed perspective on the world.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Nikolai Gogol 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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