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Chargement... And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon: Essential Stories (Pushkin Collection)par Nikolai Vassilievitx Gogol
   Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.   ) stravinsky | Aug 29, 2022 |  Stories included: The Nose; Diary of a Madman; The Overcoat; Old-World Landowners; The Carriage I have heard that The Nose does not feel like a nearly-200-year-old story (1836), and I have to agree. It is absurd, and I really don't know if even Poe was writing anything quite so absurd. Diary of a Madman and The Overcoat are also urban stories--both focus on the lives of small-time workers in government positions. I believe these are new translations, so the English is modern in usage. Old-World Landowners and The Carriage both focus on rural areas, and again both are really about the varying statuses within Russian culture. Landowners, serfs, Generals, small-time officers, etc. I think Old-World Landowners was my favorite here. It illustrates the richness of the land while also showing the incompetence of the landowners, the theft of the employees, and the rough lives of the serfs (though they are well fed). The Nose is a little too absurd for me, but it is supposed to be satire--is it really about the government position the man the nose belongs in being left behind by an important ally? His inability to do his job without his right-hand man (or, his nose) there to support him? About each position actually being a group who gets things done and..sniffs things out? I don't know enough about Russian government of the time to give an educated guess. (  ) Dreesie | Apr 14, 2021 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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 St Petersburg stories - 'The Nose', 'The Overcoat' and 'The Diary of a Madman' - are presented alongside three masterworks set in the Ukrainian and Russian provinces, demonstrating the breadth of Gogol's work. 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. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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 Google Books — Chargement...GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)891.733Literature Literature of other languages Literature of east Indo-European and Celtic languages Russian and East Slavic languages Russian fiction 1800–1917Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne: (3.38)
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