Petersburg Tales
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Автор: Nikolai Gogol
Язык: Английский
Издательство: Alma Classics
Год: 2014
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Written in the 1830s and early 1840s, these comic stories tackle life behind the cold and elegant fa?ade of the imperial capital from the viewpoints of various characters, such as a collegiate assessor who one day finds that his nose has detached itself from his face and risen the ranks to become a state councillor (The Nose), a painter and a lieutenant whose romantic pursuits meet with contrasting degrees of success (Nevsky Prospect), and a lowly civil servant whose existence desperately unravels when he loses his prized new coat (The Overcoat). Also including Diary of Madman, these Petersburg Tales paint a critical yet hilarious portrait of a city riddled with pomposity and self-importance, masterfully juxtaposing 19th-century realism with madcap surrealism, and combining absurdist farce with biting satire.