Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, and Selected Stories. Николай Гоголь
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This volume includes both his most admired short fiction and his most famous drama. Author, dramatist and satirist, Nikolay Gogol (1809-1852) deeply influenced later Russian literature with his powerful depictions of a society dominated by petty beaurocracy and base corruption. The stories gathered here, meanwhile, range from comic to tragic and describe the isolated lives of low-ranking clerks, lunatics and swindlers. A biting and frequently hilarious political satire, "The Government Inspector" has been popular since its first performance and was regarded by Nabokov as the greatest Russian play every written. Из серии: Penguin Classics
2006. They include "Diary of a Madman", an amusing but disturbing exploration of insanity; "Nevsky Prospect", a depiction of an artist besotted with a prostitute; and "The Overcoat", a moving consideration of poverty that powerfully influenced Dostoevsky and later Russian literature.