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The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Gogol
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Description for The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
Paperback. Collected here are superb new translations of the finest tales - from the founding master of Russian surreal allegory and irony Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 128 x 29. Weight in Grams: 318.
Collected here are Gogol's finest tales - from the demon-haunted 'St John's Eve' to the strange surrealism of 'The Nose', from the heart-rending trials of the copyist in 'The Overcoat' to those of the delusional clerk in 'The Diary of a Madman' - allowing readers to experience anew the unmistakable genius of a writer who paved the way for Dostoevsky and Kafka. To this superb new translation - the first in twenty-five years and 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 ... Read more
Collected here are Gogol's finest tales - from the demon-haunted 'St John's Eve' to the strange surrealism of 'The Nose', from the heart-rending trials of the copyist in 'The Overcoat' to those of the delusional clerk in 'The Diary of a Madman' - allowing readers to experience anew the unmistakable genius of a writer who paved the way for Dostoevsky and Kafka. To this superb new translation - the first in twenty-five years and 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Granta Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847084217
SKU
V9781847084217
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About Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) was one of the great masters of Russian literature, and was the author of numerous stories and a novel, Dead Souls. Together, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have translated Dostoevsky's Dead Souls, Crime and Punishment, Notes from Underground, Demons and The Brothers Karamazov, for which they were awarded the PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize. They then translated ... Read more
Reviews for The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
Gogol's occasional weirdness is just as weird today, of such a strange order of invention, that even a word like "exuberant" doesn't begin to cover it ... Gogol is strangely timeless
Nicholas Lezard
Guardian
This was, for me, an electric introduction to Russian literature.
AD Miller
The Independent
Nabokov was right about Gogol's greatness, ... Read more
Nicholas Lezard
Guardian
This was, for me, an electric introduction to Russian literature.
AD Miller
The Independent
Nabokov was right about Gogol's greatness, ... Read more