EAN: 9781805330332

AND THE EARTH WILL SIT ON THE MOON - NIKOLAI GO...

Iconic short stories from the Russian master of satire  in a strikingly modern translation "The
most morally complete writer: baffled  outraged  reverent  mock-didactic  mocking  all at once.
He honours life by feeling no one way about it." -- George Saunders No writer has captured the
absurdity of the human condition as acutely as Nikolai Gogol. In a lively new translation by
Oliver Ready  this collection contains his great classic stories - "The Overcoat"  "The Nose"
and "Diary of a Madman" -- alongside lesser known gems depicting life in the Russian and
Ukrainian countryside. Together  they reveal Gogol's marvelously skewed perspective  moving
between the urban and the rural with painfully sharp humour and scorching satire. Strikingly
modern in his depictions of society's shambolic structures  Gogol plunders the depths of
bureaucratic and domestic banalities to unearth moments of dark comedy and outrageous
corruption. Defying categorisation  the stories in this collection range from the surreal to
the satirical to the grotesque  united in their exquisite psychological acuteness and tender
insights into the bizarre irrationalities of the human soul.

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