Diary of a Madman and Other Stories, Nikolai Gogol
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories, Nikolai Gogol
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Diary of a Madman and Other Stories

Author: Nikolai Gogol

Narrator: Nicholas Boulton

Unabridged: 17 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Naxos

Published: 08/10/2018

Categories: Fiction, Classic


Synopsis

The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories is a bizarre and colorful collection containing the complete Ukrainian and Petersburg stories by the iconic Russian writer Nikolai Gogol. From the witty and Kafkaesque The Nose, where a civil servant wakes up one day to find his nose missing, to the moving and evocative The Overcoat, about a sad and reclusive man whose only ambition is to replace his old, threadbare coat, Gogol gives us a unique and satirical take on the absurd. Gogol’s tales of inconsequential civil servants, mixing the everyday with the surreal, foreshadow the work of his later acolytes, Bulgakov and Kafka. None is more cutting than the main story, The Diary of a Madman, where a government clerk descends to insanity, claiming that he can communicate with dogs and that he is next in line to the throne of Spain.

About Nikolai Gogol

Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) was a Russian novelist, humorist, and dramatist. Considered the father of modern Russian realism, his best-known works are the novels Dead Souls and Taras Bul'ba, the play The Inspector-General, and the short stories "Diary of a Madman," "The Nose," and "The Overcoat." With their scrupulous and scathing realism, ethical criticism, and philosophical depth, they remain some of the most important works of world literature. However, because much of Gogol's writing satirized the corrupt bureaucracy of the Russian Empire, he was temporarily exiled from Russia.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit

All three tales are written in that unique mysterious style which only Nikolai Gogol could use. For madman the world is what is in his head… And Nikolai Gogol puts into the head of his lunatic a plenitude of ridiculous things turning his mind into potpourri of ludicrous abracadabra… To-day is a day of......more

Goodreads review by Bill

If you are a reader of taste and discernment, a reader who values their time, you could do worse than pick up this little volume of tales by Nikolai Gogol. How many books of a merely 231 pages can offer you four masterpieces (three short stories, one novella) and one delightful, expertly crafted sho......more

اگر داستان کوتاه دوست دارید، اگر ادبیات روسیه را دوست دارید، اگر چخوف دوست دارید و هزار تا اگر دیگر: یادداشت‌های یک دیوانه را از دست ندهید. راستش مطمئن نیستم که قبلاً این کتاب را این‌جا معرفی نکرده‌ام. اگر تکراری است، شرمنده. یادداشت‌های یک دیوانه مجموعه داستانی است از نیکلای گوگول، نویسنده روس که از ۱......more

Goodreads review by Peiman

این کتاب متشکل از ۸ داستان کوتاه به نام‌های «یادداشت‌های یک دیوانه»، «بلوار نیفسکی»، «دماغ»، «شنل»، «کالسکه»، «ماجرای نزاع ایوان...»، «مالکین قدیمی» و «ایوان فیودورویچ آشپونکا و خاله‌اش» است. داستانهای همگی در عین سادگی و روان بودن حاوی نکات عمیقی هستند و نیازمند اندکی تأمل. چهار داستان اول رو بیشتر......more