The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol, Volume 1

by Nikolai Gogol

edited by Leonard J. Kent

translated by Constance Garnett

University of Chicago Press, 1985

Paper: 978-0-226-30068-9

Library of Congress Classification PG3333.A15 1985

Dewey Decimal Classification 891.733

ABOUT THIS BOOK

The complete tales of one of the most creative, incisive, and entertaining of the Russian masters

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." The list of writers who credit his absurd, bitingly satirical, wildly funny work as an influence includes Dostoevsky, Kafka, Mikhail Bulgakov, Nabokov, Flannery O'Connor, and many more.

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."

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