Russian Texts: The Gogol (Paperback)

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Gogol is a master of the short story and "The Overcoat" is widely seen to be one his masterpieces. There is a merger of humor and humanity. It's pre-Modernist so the moralistic ending with the bad guys getting their due, but Gogol makes an unsympathetic weakling character into someone of importan...

from jonfaith

I first read this about a hundred years ago. Someone gave a smart little leather bound copy and yesterday was an opportunity to place it in my jacket. I enjoyed such while my wife was inside at a hair appointment.The story regards the plight of a clerk, an Everyman, a copyist by trade and largely...

from jonfaith

I first read this about a hundred years ago. Someone gave a smart little leather bound copy and yesterday was an opportunity to place it in my jacket. I enjoyed such while my wife was inside at a hair appointment.The story regards the plight of a clerk, an Everyman, a copyist by trade and largely...

from berthirsch

How can a story written in the 1840's read like a modern tale? Gogol captured the inner life of a civil servant , meager in his lifestyle, happy to be employed in the simple task of copying documents in his beautiful script. yet when his bare thread coat gives way to the cold Russian winters he i...

from Michael.Xolotl

Quite funny and sad. No surprise since the two often go together.