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And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon

Essential Stories

Essential Stories

Essential Stories

By Nikolai Gogol
Translated by Oliver Ready

By Nikolai Gogol
Translated by Oliver Ready

By Nikolai Gogol
Translated by Oliver Ready

By Nikolai Gogol
Translated by Oliver Ready

By Nikolai Gogol
Translated by Oliver Ready

By Nikolai Gogol
Translated by Oliver Ready

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Category: Fiction

Category: Fiction

Category: Fiction

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Apr 02, 2024 | ISBN 9781805330332

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Apr 06, 2021 | ISBN 9781782275152

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Apr 06, 2021 | ISBN 9781782275169

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    About And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon

    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.

    About And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon

    Fresh, stylish new translations of Gogol’s greatest short stories collected in a beautiful edition

    Admired by writers from Nabokov to Bulgakov to George Saunders, Gogol is considered one of the more enigmatic of the Russian greats. He only wrote one novel, Dead Souls, and destroyed much of his later work, so his stories constitute his major output.

    In this collection, beautifully and skilfully translated by Oliver Ready, Gogol’s three greatest St Petersburg stories – ‘The Nose’, ‘The Overcoat’ and ‘The Diary of a Madman’ – are presented alongside three masterworks set in the Ukrainian and Russian provinces, demonstrating the breadth of Gogol’s work.

    Gogol’s extraordinary work is characterised by his idiosyncratic and often very funny sensibility, and these stories offer us his unique, original and marvellously skewed perspective on the world.

    About And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon

    Fresh, stylish new translations of Gogol’s greatest short stories collected in a beautiful edition

    Admired by writers from Nabokov to Bulgakov to George Saunders, Gogol is considered one of the more enigmatic of the Russian greats. He only wrote one novel, Dead Souls, and destroyed much of his later work, so his stories constitute his major output.

    In this collection, beautifully and skilfully translated by Oliver Ready, Gogol’s three greatest St Petersburg stories – ‘The Nose’, ‘The Overcoat’ and ‘The Diary of a Madman’ – are presented alongside three masterworks set in the Ukrainian and Russian provinces, demonstrating the breadth of Gogol’s work.

    Gogol’s extraordinary work is characterised by his idiosyncratic and often very funny sensibility, and these stories offer us his unique, original and marvellously skewed perspective on the world.

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    About Nikolai Gogol

    Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol was born in 1809 in Ukraine, and moved to St Petersburg after his studies in 1828 to work in an obscure government ministry. His first collection of stories, Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka (1831), made him… More about Nikolai Gogol

    About Nikolai Gogol

    Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol was born in 1809 in Ukraine, and moved to St Petersburg after his studies in 1828 to work in an obscure government ministry. His first collection of stories, Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka (1831), made him… More about Nikolai Gogol

    About Nikolai Gogol

    Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol was born in 1809 in Ukraine, and moved to St Petersburg after his studies in 1828 to work in an obscure government ministry. His first collection of stories, Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka (1831), made him… More about Nikolai Gogol

    Product Details

    Category: Fiction

    Paperback | $16.95
    Published by Pushkin Press Classics
    Apr 02, 2024 | 224 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-13/16 | ISBN 9781805330332

    Category: Fiction

    Paperback | $18.00
    Published by Pushkin Collection
    Apr 06, 2021 | 224 Pages | 4-11/16 x 6-1/2 | ISBN 9781782275152

    Category: Fiction

    Ebook | $13.99
    Published by Pushkin Collection
    Apr 06, 2021 | 224 Pages | ISBN 9781782275169

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    Praise

    “Gogol’s prose works feature a fiendishly complex narrative structure. In his engaging new versions, Oliver Ready deploys a rich vocabulary. . . . Along the way, there is much to savour.” — Times Literary Supplement

    “I wish I had written the story ‘The Overcoat’. The sensibility of that story is perfect . . . spontaneous and funny and also formally very experimental” – George Saunders

    “One of the most profound, and influential, writers Russia has ever produced, he is also probably the funniest” – Guardian

    “The greatest artist that Russia has yet produced” – Vladimir Nabokov

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