Reading Gogols Petersburg Tales In Russian

Author : Mark R Pettus
Publisher : Mark R. Pettus
ISBN 13 : 9781087969343
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Gogol's Petersburg Tales in Russian written by Mark R Pettus and published by Mark R. Pettus. This book was released on 2021-05-29 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Overcoat," "The Nose," "Diary of a Madman," and "Nevsky Prospekt" are presented in their entirety, in the original Russian and in a facing English translation.

Author : Mark R Pettus, PH D
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Gogol's Petersburg Tales in Russian written by Mark R Pettus, PH D and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-01-31 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pure delight to read, the four major "Petersburg Tales" of Nikolai Gogol - strange and fantastical, ludicrously absurd, by turns harrowing and hilarious - are among the foundational texts of modern Russian literature. In this volume designed specifically for Russian learners, "The Overcoat," "The Nose," "Diary of a Madman," and "Nevsky Prospekt" are presented in their entirety, in the original Russian and in a facing English translation, together with all the vocabulary notes and reference tables you need to make sense of the original. Photographs of important sites will help orient you in Gogol's Petersburg. Designed to help students of Russian begin to enjoy real Russian literature in the original without constantly reaching for a dictionary, this parallel-text edition features a new translation made specifically for this purpose, as well as detailed Russian vocabulary notes, including all the important forms you need (especially aspectual pairs and conjugation types for all verbs). The original Russian text is marked for stress, but is otherwise unedited and unsimplified.In "The Overcoat," a petty copy clerk scrimps and saves to purchase a new overcoat; once acquired, it fills his life with a dubious sort of meaning... until tragedy strikes. In "The Nose," a conceited official wakes up one morning to find an empty, flat spot where his nose used to be! Worse yet, when he finally tracks down his runaway nose, he finds it praying in church, and - O horror! - wearing a uniform of a rank higher than his own! In "Diary of a Madman," a clerk obsessed with his boss's daughter tries to find the answers he seeks by intercepting her dog's correspondence, as he gradually loses all touch with reality. Finally, in "Nevsky Prospekt," two friends follow two different women down the famous Petersburg boulevard - with radically divergent consequences.

Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231549067
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nose and Other Stories written by Nikolai Gogol and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher : Alma Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781847493491
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Petersburg Tales: New Translation written by Nikolai Gogol and published by Alma Classics. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Николай Васильевич Гоголь
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226300689
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol, Volume 1 written by Николай Васильевич Гоголь and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1985-04-15 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume edition at last brings all of Gogol's fiction (except his novel Dead Souls) together in paperback. Volume one includes Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka, as well as 'Nevsky Prospekt' and 'Diary of a Madman'.

Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307803368
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol written by Nikolai Gogol and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-08-17 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 obligation to an overarching theme. Selected from Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka, Mirgorod, and the Petersburg tales and arranged in order of composition, the thirteen stories in The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogolencompass the breadth of Gogol's literary achievement. From the demon-haunted “St. John's Eve ” to the heartrending humiliations and trials of a titular councilor in “The Overcoat,” Gogol's knack for turning literary conventions on their heads combined with his overt joy in the art of story telling shine through in each of the tales. This translation, by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, is as vigorous and darkly funny as the original Russian. It allows readers to experience anew the unmistakable genius of a writer who paved the way for Dostevsky and Kafka.

Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher : Alma Books
ISBN 13 : 0714545856
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Petersburg Tales written by Nikolai Gogol and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the 1830s and early 1840s, these comic stories tackle life behind the cold and elegant facade 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.

Author : Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780226300696
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol written by Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories portrays life in rural Russia and satirizes Russian society

Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher : Pushkin Press Classics
ISBN 13 : 1805330330
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon written by Nikolai Gogol and published by Pushkin Press Classics. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iconic short stories from the Russian master of satire, in a strikingly modern translation "The most morally complete writer: baffled, outraged, reverent, mock-didactic, mocking, all at once. He honours life by feeling no one way about it." — George Saunders No writer has captured the absurdity of the human condition as acutely as Nikolai Gogol. In a lively new translation by Oliver Ready, this collection contains his great classic stories - "The Overcoat", "The Nose" and "Diary of a Madman" — alongside lesser known gems depicting life in the Russian and Ukrainian countryside. Together, they reveal Gogol's marvelously skewed perspective, moving between the urban and the rural with painfully sharp humour and scorching satire. Strikingly modern in his depictions of society's shambolic structures, Gogol plunders the depths of bureaucratic and domestic banalities to unearth moments of dark comedy and outrageous corruption. Defying categorisation, the stories in this collection range from the surreal to the satirical to the grotesque, united in their exquisite psychological acuteness and tender insights into the bizarre irrationalities of the human soul.

Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781957240404
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Stories of Nikolai Gogol written by Nikolai Gogol and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-18 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected Stories of Nikolai Gogol includes Gogol's most well-known tales: "The Diary of a Madman," "The Nose," and "The Overcoat," an illuminating afterword by Patrick Maxwell, and a biographical timeline.