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    Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
    Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
    Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
    Audiobook17 hours

    Diary of a Madman and Other Stories

    Written by Nikolai Gogol

    Narrated by Nicholas Boulton

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    The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories is a bizarre and colorful collection containing the complete Ukrainian and Petersburg stories by the iconic Russian writer Nikolai Gogol. From the witty and Kafkaesque The Nose, where a civil servant wakes up one day to find his nose missing, to the moving and evocative The Overcoat, about a sad and reclusive man whose only ambition is to replace his old, threadbare coat, Gogol gives us a unique and satirical take on the absurd. Gogol’s tales of inconsequential civil servants, mixing the everyday with the surreal, foreshadow the work of his later acolytes, Bulgakov and Kafka. None is more cutting than the main story, The Diary of a Madman, where a government clerk descends to insanity, claiming that he can communicate with dogs and that he is next in line to the throne of Spain.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNaxos Audiobooks
    Release dateAug 10, 2018
    ISBN9781781981535
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    Nikolai Gogol

    Nikolai Gogol was a Russian novelist and playwright born in what is now considered part of the modern Ukraine. By the time he was 15, Gogol worked as an amateur writer for both Russian and Ukrainian scripts, and then turned his attention and talent to prose. His short-story collections were immediately successful and his first novel, The Government Inspector, was well-received. Gogol went on to publish numerous acclaimed works, including Dead Souls, The Portrait, Marriage, and a revision of Taras Bulba. He died in 1852 while working on the second part of Dead Souls.

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    • 5/5
      The narrator- extraordinary. Amazing voice acting. Perfect for Russian novels. Or any work for that matter.

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    • 5/5
      Amazing collection and reading. Contains both the Petersburg and the Ukrainian tales.
    • 5/5
      The reading was superb, of the finest quality you can find.
      Some of the stories are genius, others live in a worldview not particular to my taste, but I enjoyed the atmosphere in them.
      A worthy and enjoyable book.