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ISBN-10: 0231190697
ISBN-13: 9780231190695
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publish Date: 09/01/2020
Dimensions: 8.40" L, 5.50" W, 0.90" H

The Nose and Other Stories

Translator: Susanne Fusso

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Price: $17.95

Overview

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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Crazy, colorful, delightful, and sad, Gogol's short stories are among the great gems of Russian literature. Susanne Fusso's scholarly and stylish new translations bring them alive once again and make this selection a pleasure to read.–David Bellos, author of Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything
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Details

ISBN-10: 0231190697
ISBN-13: 9780231190695
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publish Date: 09/01/2020
Dimensions: 8.40" L, 5.50" W, 0.90" H
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