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La narizLa perspectiva NevskiLa terrible venganzaNoche de mayo o la ahogadaDiario de un locoEl abrigoEl capoteLa feria de SorochinetzNikolái Vasílievich Gógol (en ruso: Николай Васильевич Гоголь; Sor

Gogol''s classic, uproarious folktale, presented in a beautiful hardcover edition perfect for giving as a gift.Written in 1831, this dark tale relates the adventures of Vakula, the blacksmith, in his fight against the devil, who has stolen the moon above the village of Dikanka and is wreaking havoc on its inhabitants, all to win the love of the most beautiful girl in town. The basis for many film and opera adaptations, and still a story traditionally read aloud to children on Christmas Eve in Ukraine and Russia, The Night Before Christmas is the best holiday tale by the man whom Vladimir Nabokov called ''the greatest writer Russia has yet produced''.Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) was the son of a Ukrainian gentleman farmer. He attended a variety of boarding schools, where he proved an indifferent student but was admired for his theatrical abilities. In 1828 he moved to St. Petersburg and began to publish stories, and by the mid-1830s he had established himself in the literary world and been warmly praised by Pushkin. In 1836, his play The Inspector-General was attacked as immoral, and he left Russia, remaining abroad for most of the next dozen years. During that time he wrote two of his best-known stories, ''The Nose'' and ''The Overcoat,'' and in 1842 he published the first section of his masterpiece Dead Souls. Gogol became increasingly religious as the years passed, and in 1847 he became the disciple of an Orthodox priest who influenced him to burn the second part of Dead Souls and then abandon writing altogether. After undertaking an extreme fast, he died at the age of forty-two.

Written in the 1830s and early 1840s, these comic stories tackle life behind the cold and elegant façade of the Imperial capital from the viewpoints of various characters, such as a collegiate assessor who one day finds that his nose has detached itself from his face and risen the ranks to become a state councillor (The Nose), a painter and a lieutenant whose romantic pursuits meet with contrasting degrees of success (Nevsky Prospect) and a lowly civil servant whose existence desperately unravels when he loses his prized new coat (The Overcoat).Also including the Diary of Madman, these Petersburg Tales paint a critical yet hilarious portrait of a city riddled with pomposity and self-importance, masterfully juxtaposing nineteenth-century realism with madcap surrealism, and combining absurdist farce with biting satire.________Gogol was a strange creature, but then genius is always strange. Vladimir Nabokov

The news that a government inspector is due to arrive in a small Russian town sends its bureaucrats into a panicked frenzy. A simple case of mistaken identity exposes the hypocrisy and corruption at the heart of the town in this biting moral satire. David Harrowers version of Nikolai Gogols Government Inspector premiered at the Warwick Arts Centre in May 2011 and transferred to Young Vic, London in June.

Hey, you with the beard!' A coiffured con man travels across Russia's rural backwaters, buying the souls of dead serfs from their owners to make his fortune, in Gogol's exuberant, bravura masterwork: the greatest comedy in Russian literature.

Escrita per Nikolai Gogol el 1840 i considerada com un clàssic de la literatura d’aventures, Taras Bulba és una narració ambientada en el segle XVI i tracta sobre la vida dels cosacs ucraïnesos. Amb

El protagonista de esta historia un buen día descubre con gran preocupación que ha perdido su nariz, hasta que la encuentra casualmente por la calle, dotada de vida propia... La nariz es un relato qu

Nei racconti del ciclo pietroburghese la capitale (che all'ucraino Gogol'appare come una citta non russa, splendida facciata di un edificio ormai inrovina dove si conduce una vita vuota, esteriore, alienata) si fa al tempostesso scenario grottesco e sinistro burattinaio di quella "vita vegetativa"verso la quale lo scrittore si senti sempre attirato, in un dupliceatteggiamento di compiacimento partecipe e di beffarda ironia. Il naso, Ilritratto, Il mantello: i racconti piu famosi dello scrittore russo. Unbarbiere trova un naso nel panino che sta mangiando; un impiegato mite esolitario viene derubato del mantello nuovo e sara vendicato dal suo fantasma;un uomo solo scrive un diario di fatti e date impossibili... Maestro delrealismo fantastico, Gogol' reinventa la vita e ne rovescia il senso in unascrittura vivacissima, di pirotecnica originalita.

Gogol plasmó en Almas muertas la misma visión ácida y satírica de Rusia que impregna sus «Historias de San Petersburgo» (L 5505), entre las que se cuentan relatos tan célebres como «La nariz» y «El a

Ambientada en el siglo xvi, Tarás Bulba es la epopeya, tan breve como bella, de los cosacos del Dniéper y de la heroica lucha que durante varios siglos sostuvo el pueblo ucraniano para conservar su independencia nacional. Con un acento entre lirico y nostalgico, con una entonacion epica y esas vastas metaforas que recuerdan a los poetas de la antiguedad clasica, el satirico autor de La nariz o de El inspector canta la naturaleza poderosa y salvaje de aquellos hombres indomables. ¿Que es Taras Bulba? se preguntaba ya el critico Belinski. Es un heroe, es el representante de la vida de todo un pueblo, de toda una sociedad politica en una epoca determinada de la vida.

Gogol creó algunas de las pesadillas más intensas y perfectas de la literatura, de las cuales, acaso las mejores, el lector tenga entre sus manos en este preciso momento. El mundo descrito en estos relatos es la vida de San Petersburgo, una urbe fantasmal rodeada de soledad, surgida de la nada como un espejismo. El mundo de Gogol es el de los perdedores, los fracasados, los locos...En un momento determinado de sus vidas, sus personajes acceden a esa otra realidad que se oculta a nuestras miradas aburridas. He aqui donde radica el genio de Gogol: descubrio una veta de explotacion literaria que ya en el siglo XX seria cosa comun. Cada uno de estos relatos nos habla de un universo al mismo tiempo primitivo y moderno, y nos hace entender que la locura es el fundamento de la creacion literaria.

Drama Classics: The Worlds Great Plays at a Great Little Price A classic satire of provincial bureaucracy, which only saw the stage after the personal intervention of Tsar Nicholas I.A small, corrupt Russian town receives a letter informing them of the imminent visit of a government inspector travelling incognito. When a passing civil servant is mistaken for the inspector, panic soon sets in.This English version of Nikolai Gogols play The Government Inspector, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, is translated and introduced by Stephen Mulrine.