Diary of a Madman, Nikolai Gogol
Diary of a Madman, Nikolai Gogol
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Diary of a Madman

Author: Nikolai Gogol

Narrator: Denis Daly

Unabridged: 1 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/01/2020


Synopsis

Diary of a Madman

by Nikolai Gogol

Translated by Ethel Voynich

Narrated by Denis Daly

Many of Gogol's stories feature ineffectual individuals who are overwhelmed by the caprices of fate.  In Diary of a Madman, one of his most colourful tales, the narrator, a humble and obscure office worker, veers from mere eccentricity into full blown lunacy, and finds that the delusions fostered by madness are anything but comforting.

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 Leonard

One fine morning in Saint Petersburg, Major Kovalyov, a womaniser upstart, looks in the mirror and discovers that his nose is gone. That same morning, the barber Ivan Yakovlevich slices a roll of onion bread only to find out there is a nose tucked inside the crumb. This is the grotesque premise of T......more

Goodreads review by Hugo

I had never read Gogol but after reading this collection, I became an absolut fan. It contains one short story from the collection "Evenings On a Farm Near Dikanka", one from "Mirgorod" collection and 6 from the editorial cycle "Tales of St. Petersburg. The latter are absolutly magnificent, as is th......more

Goodreads review by Lewis

I am well aware that this book is worth more than three stars in a lot of people's eyes but i freely admit it's a me issue. The great Russians do something for other people that they don't do for me. Perhaps i am too Anglophile in my tastes and my outlook. I knew that Gogol is considered a genius an......more

Goodreads review by Daniel

The comedy in several of these stories was a little too broad for my taste, but "The Overcoat" (which I'd read before) remains a favorite, and I was tickled by the breadth and variety of small-town machinations and animosities chronicled in the tale of two Ivans, "The Government Inspector," and othe......more