Nikolai Gogol

Christmas carols, the devil, fresh-baked bread, unrequited love, a witch's broomstick, Catherine the Great, cossacks, paintings, vodka, stolen moon, an unexpected blizzard, sausage, and one very fancy pair of shoes - all is mayhem and merriment in Nikolai Gogol's delightful Christmas tale...

The writer who did most to establish prose as a force in Russian literary culture was Nikolai Gogol....

Khoma Brut had no idea the trouble he would be in when he asked for shelter at a lonely hut, belonging to an old woman. Enjoy this quirky and spooky tale by Nikolai Gogol....

Akaki Akákievich es un funcionario que trabaja como copista....

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that are difficult to achieve elsewhere.

Un caballero de industria ruso, Chichikov, ha descubierto que si compra a sus antiguos duenos los siervos muertos....

Este relato forma parte de la colección Novelas de San Petersburgo y data de 1836. Es un buen ejemplo de humor grotesco que consiste en mirar las cosas "desde el otro lado de lo trágico". Se da una fusión entre lo real y lo fantástico que dota al relato de verosimilitud.

Es un cuento del escritor Nikolái Gógol que relata la historia de un burócrata que escribe en su diario lo que le sucede. Poco a poco va relatando su descenso...

Il maggiore Kovalev si risveglia una mattina senza il proprio naso. Tra smarrimento, vanità ferita e tentativi disperati di ristabilire l'ordine, la vicenda si trasforma in una satira tagliente dell'apparenza sociale, della burocrazia e dell'identità personale.

Nel cuore gelido di una San Pietroburgo burocratica e spietata vive Akakij Akakievič, un umile impiegato ministeriale il cui unico scopo nella vita è copiare documenti.

Nel cuore di San Pietroburgo, lungo la celebre Prospettiva Nevskij, si incrociano destini, illusioni e apparenze che ingannano.

Gogol’un klasik eseri Palto, sıradan bir memurun trajikomik hikâyesi üzerinden toplumun acımasız yüzünü anlatır. Kısa ama etkileyici bu eser, modern öykücülüğün temel taşlarından biridir.

These stories have earned their place in the pantheon of great literature. Their authors, Guy de Maupassant, Nikolai Gogol, and Oscar Wilde, are indisputable masters of the short story.

Using, or rather mimicking, traditional forms of storytelling, Gogol created stories that are complete within themselves and only tangentially connected to a meaning or moral. His work belongs to the school of invention, where each twist and turn of the narrative is a surprise unfettered by...

A humble clerk. A treasured overcoat. A loss that follows him beyond the grave. Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin lives an invisible life in the freezing streets of St. Petersburg. Poorly paid, routinely mocked, and devoted to his monotonous work as a government copyist, he asks for little—until...

Nella sterminata Russia imperiale, tra strade fangose, locande decadenti e proprietà dimenticate dal tempo, un uomo enigmatico intraprende un viaggio destinato a svelare il lato più oscuro dell'animo umano.

Petersburg’un sisli sabahında bir memur, yüzünde kocaman bir boşlukla kalakalır. İtiraz etmek ister; ama neye? Kime?

Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality, vulgarity, and pomp. As Gogol's wily...

Love. Perhaps the one word solution for everything. An emotion, a state of mind that we strive for, search for. A wondrous force that binds, inspires, and a force that can spin out of control; unbalanced and fragile. Love reflects, changes and embraces us all.

The Cloak (sometimes translated as Overcoat) is a short story by Russian author Nikolai Gogol, published in 1842. The story and its author have had great influence on Russian literature, as expressed in a quote attributed to Fyodor Dostoyevsky: "We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'." The...