Nikolai Gogol's novel Dead Souls and play The Government Inspector
revolutionized Russian literature and continue to entertain
generations of readers around the world. Yet Gogol's peculiar
genius comes through most powerfully in his short stories. By
turns-or at once-funny, terrifying, and profound, the tales
collected in The Nose and Other Stories are among the greatest
achievements of world literature. These stories showcase Gogol's
vivid, haunting imagination: an encounter with evil in a darkened
church, a downtrodden clerk who dreams only of a new overcoat, a
nose that falls off a face and reappears around town on its own,
outranking its former owner. Written between 1831 and 1842, they
span the colorful setting of rural Ukraine to the unforgiving urban
landscape of St. Petersburg to the ancient labyrinth of Rome. Yet
they share Gogol's characteristic obsessions-city crowds,
bureaucratic hierarchy and irrationality, the devil in disguise-and
a constant undercurrent of the absurd. Susanne Fusso's translations
pay careful attention to the strangeness and wonder of Gogol's
style, preserving the inimitable humor and oddity of his language.
The Nose and Other Stories reveals why Russian writers from
Dostoevsky to Nabokov have returned to Gogol as the cornerstone of
their unparalleled literary tradition.
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