Racconti brevi di Nikolai Gogol, qui raccolti come Diario di un pazzo, L'ispettore generale e Racconti scelti, hanno profondamente influenzato la successiva letteratura russa con potenti descrizioni di una società dominata da una burocrazia meschina e da una corruzione di base. Questa edizione Penguin Classics è tradotta con note di Ronald Wilks e un'introduzione di Robert A. Maguire. Questo volume include una selezione dei racconti brevi più ammirati di Gogol e del suo dramma più famoso. Una satira politica esilarante e tagliente, "L'ispettore generale" è stata popolare fin dalla sua prima rappresentazione ed è stata considerata da Nabokov la più grande opera teatrale russa mai scritta. I racconti qui raccolti, nel frattempo, spaziano dal comico al tragico e descrivono le vite isolate di impiegati di basso rango, lunatici e truffatori. Includono "Diario di un pazzo", un'esplorazione divertente ma inquietante della follia; "Prospettiva Nevskij", una descrizione di un artista infatuato di una prostituta; e "Il cappotto", una commovente considerazione della povertà. Curata e tradotta da Ronald Wilks, questa nuova raccolta di scritti più brevi di Gogol cattura abilmente l'arguzia selvaggia delle opere originali. L'introduzione di Robert Maguire considera temi ricorrenti ed esplora l'influenza di Gogol sul realismo. Questa edizione include anche note dettagliate, una cronologia di pubblicazione per ogni racconto e una cronologia. Nikolai Gogol (1809-52) nacque in Ucraina. La sua esperienza della vita a San Pietroburgo ispirò un'opera teatrale selvaggiamente satirica, The Government Inspector, e una serie di brillanti racconti brevi tra cui Nevskij Prospekt e Diary of a Madman. Per oltre un decennio, Gogol lavorò al suo epico fumetto Dead Souls, prima di rinunciare alla letteratura e bruciare parti del manoscritto poco prima di morire. Se ti è piaciuto The Diary of a Madman, potresti apprezzare The Steppe and Other Stories di Anton Chekhov, disponibile anche in Penguin Classics. "Tutto ciò che ha iniziato a immaginare si è trasformato e ha iniziato a contorcersi con la vita" AS Byatt, autore di Possession.
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Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol was born in 1809; his family were small gentry of Ukrainian cossack extraction, and his father was the author of a number of plays based on Ukrainian popular tales. He attended school in Nézhin and gained a reputation for his theatrical abilities. He went to St Petersburg in 1829 and with the help of a friend gained a post in one of the government ministries. Gogol was introduced to Zhukovsky, the romantic poet, and to Pushkin, and with the publication of Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka (1831) he had an entrée to all the leading literary salons. He even managed for a short period to be Professor of History at the University of St. Petersburg (1834-5).
Diary of a Madman and The Story of the Quarrel between Ivan Ivanovich and Ivan Nikiforovich appeared in 1934, The Nose in 1836, and The Overcoat in 1842. Gogol also wrote the play The Inspector (1836), Dead Souls (1842), and several moralizing essays defending the Tsarist regime, to the horror of his liberal and radical friends. He lived a great deal abroad, mostly in Rome, and in his last years became increasingly prey to religious mania and despair. He made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1848, but was bitterly disappointed in the lack of feeling that the journey kindled. He returned to Russia and fell under the influence of a spiritual director who told him to destroy his writings as they were sinful. He burned the second part of Dead Souls, and died in 1852 after subjecting himself to a severe regime of fasting.
Ronald Wilks studied Russian language and literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, and later Russian literature at London University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1972. He has also translated ‘The Little Demon’ by Sologub and, for Penguin Classics, My Childhood, My Apprenticeship, and My Universities by Gorky, The Golovlyov Family by Saltykov-Shchedrin and four volumes of stories by Chekhov: The Kiss and Other Stories, The Duel and Other Stories, The Party and Other Stories, and The Fiancée and Other Stories.
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Paperback. Condizione: New. Nikolai Gogol's short fiction, collected here as The Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector and Selected Stories, deeply influenced later Russian literature with powerful depictions of a society dominated by petty bureaucracy and base corruption. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with notes by Ronald Wilks, and an introduction by Robert A. Maguire.This volume includes a selection of Gogol's most admired short fiction and his most famous drama. A hilarious and biting political satire, 'The Government Inspector' has been popular since its first performance and was regarded by Nabokov as the greatest Russian play ever written. The stories gathered here, meanwhile, range from comic to tragic and describe the isolated lives of low-ranking clerks, lunatics and swindlers. They include 'Diary of a Madman', an amusing but disturbing exploration of insanity; 'Nevsky Prospect', a depiction of an artist infatuated with a prostitute; and 'The Overcoat', a moving consideration of poverty.Edited and translated by Ronald Wilks, this new collection of Gogol's shorter writings skilfully captures the savage wit of the original works. Robert Maguire's introduction considers recurrent themes and explores Gogol's influence on realism. This edition also includes detailed notes, a publishing history for each story and a chronology.Nikolai Gogol (1809-52) was born in the Ukraine. His experience of St Petersburg life informed a savagely satirical play, The Government Inspector, and a series of brilliant short stories including Nevsky Prospekt and Diary of a Madman. For over a decade, Gogol laboured on his comic epic Dead Souls - before renouncing literature and burning parts of the manuscript shortly before he died.If you enjoyed The Diary of a Madman, you might like Anton Chekhov's The Steppe and Other Stories, also available in Penguin Classics.'Everything he started to imagine transformed itself and began to wriggle with life'A.S. Byatt, author of Possession. Codice articolo LU-9780140449075
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Paperback. Condizione: New. Nikolai Gogol's short fiction, collected here as The Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector and Selected Stories, deeply influenced later Russian literature with powerful depictions of a society dominated by petty bureaucracy and base corruption. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with notes by Ronald Wilks, and an introduction by Robert A. Maguire.This volume includes a selection of Gogol's most admired short fiction and his most famous drama. A hilarious and biting political satire, 'The Government Inspector' has been popular since its first performance and was regarded by Nabokov as the greatest Russian play ever written. The stories gathered here, meanwhile, range from comic to tragic and describe the isolated lives of low-ranking clerks, lunatics and swindlers. They include 'Diary of a Madman', an amusing but disturbing exploration of insanity; 'Nevsky Prospect', a depiction of an artist infatuated with a prostitute; and 'The Overcoat', a moving consideration of poverty.Edited and translated by Ronald Wilks, this new collection of Gogol's shorter writings skilfully captures the savage wit of the original works. Robert Maguire's introduction considers recurrent themes and explores Gogol's influence on realism. This edition also includes detailed notes, a publishing history for each story and a chronology.Nikolai Gogol (1809-52) was born in the Ukraine. His experience of St Petersburg life informed a savagely satirical play, The Government Inspector, and a series of brilliant short stories including Nevsky Prospekt and Diary of a Madman. For over a decade, Gogol laboured on his comic epic Dead Souls - before renouncing literature and burning parts of the manuscript shortly before he died.If you enjoyed The Diary of a Madman, you might like Anton Chekhov's The Steppe and Other Stories, also available in Penguin Classics.'Everything he started to imagine transformed itself and began to wriggle with life'A.S. Byatt, author of Possession. Codice articolo LU-9780140449075
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