Petersburg Tales: New Translation

Name: Petersburg Tales: New Translation
Brand: Bloomsbury USA
SKU: 9781847493491-V
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By Nikolai Gogol

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Written in the 1830s and early 1840s, these comic stories tackle life behind the cold and elegant façade 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 the 'Diary of Madman', these Petersburg Tales paint a critical yet hilarious portrait of a city riddled with pomposity and self-importance, masterfully juxtaposing nineteenth-century realism with madcap surrealism, and combining absurdist farce with biting satire.

Product details

Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 192
Release Date:: 2017-06-14
Publication Date:: 2014-09-01
Publisher:: Bloomsbury USA
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1847493491
ISBN13:: 9781847493491
Weight:: 186 g
Height:: 126 cm
Width:: 198 cm
Thickness:: 20 cm

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