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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