The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol, Volume 1

The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol, Volume 1

The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol, Volume 1

The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol, Volume 1

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Overview

Nikolai Gogol was an artist who, like Rabelais, Cervantes, Swift, and Sterne, "knew how to walk upside down in our valley of sorrows so as to make it to a merry place." This two-volume edition at last brings all of Gogol's fiction (except his novel Dead Souls) together in paperback. Volume 1 includes Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka, the early Ukrainian folktales that first brought Gogol fame, as well as "Nevsky Prospekt" and "Diary of a Madman."

"It is good to have a complete collection of Gogol's tales in paperback. . . . Professor Kent has thoroughly revised Mrs. Garnett's conscientious and skillful translation, eliminating the Victorianisms of her style, correcting mistakes and pruderies of diction, and making the whole translation sound much more contemporary and alive. But he has avoided the whimsicality and 'curliness' in which some recent translators indulged, and he has not changed or suppressed anything material. He has also supplied helpful notes which are often the first annotation in English, and he has written an introduction which steers the correct middle course between making Gogol an irresponsible artist of the grotesque and proving him a documentary historian of backward Russia."--René Wellek, Yale University

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780226300689
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 04/15/1985
Series: Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol Series
Edition description: Revised Edition
Pages: 302
Sales rank: 734,743
Product dimensions: 5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

About The Author

Novelist, dramatist, and satirist Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) was a Russian writer of Ukrainian ancestry whose works deeply influenced later Russian literature through powerful depictions of a society dominated by petty bureaucracy and base corruption. Gogol’s best-known short stories — "The Nose" and "The Overcoat" — display strains of Surrealism and the grotesque, while his greatest novel, Dead Souls, is one of the founding books of Russian realism.

Table of Contents

Preface
About the Translation
Table of Nineteenth-Century Russian Civil and Military Ranks
Evenings on a Farm in Dikanka, I
Preface
The Fair at Sorochinstsy
St. John's Eve
A May Night, or the Drowned Maiden
The Lost Letter
Evenings on a Farm in Dikanka, II
Preface
Christmas Eve
A Terrible Vengeance
Ivan Fiodorovich Shponka and His Aunt
A Bewitched Place
Arabesques
Nevsky Prospekt
Diary of a Madman
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