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The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 891.733
EAN: 9780375706158
ISBN: 0375706151
Label: Vintage
Languages: RussianOriginal LanguageEnglishUnknownEnglishPublished
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 464
Publication Date: June 29, 1999
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: June 29, 1999
Studio: Vintage
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Editorial Review:When Pushkin first read some of the stories in this collection, he declared himself "amazed." "Here is real gaiety," he wrote, "honest, unconstrained, without mincing, without primness. And in places what poetry! . . . I still haven't recovered."More than a century and a half later, Nikolai Gogol's stories continue to delight readers the world over. Now a stunning new translation--from an award-winning team of translators--presents these stories in all their inventive, exuberant glory to English-speaking readers. For the first time, the best of Gogol's short fiction is brought together in a single volume: from the colorful Ukrainian tales that led some critics to call him "the Russian Dickens" to the Petersburg stories, with their black humor and wonderfully demented attitude toward the powers that be. All of Gogol's most memorable creations are here: the minor official who misplaces his nose, the downtrodden clerk whose life is changed by the acquisition of a splendid new overcoat, the wily madman who becomes convinced that a dog can tell him everything he needs to know.These fantastic, comic, utterly Russian characters have dazzled generations of readers and had a profound influence on writers such as Dostoevsky and Nabokov. Now they are brilliantly rendered in the first new translation in twenty-five years--one that is destined to become the definitive edition of Gogol's most important stories.
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I got the idea to buy this book after seeing the movie Name Sake w/ Kal Penn. It is a great movie with a personal message. A must see movie and the lesson here is never forget your roots and we come out of Gogols Ovecoat?
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I'm Russian myself, and I wanted to find a good translation so that my husband could read the stories I was telling him about for himself. Boy, was it disappointing. I guess I thought if the translator had a Russian name, she'd know what she was talking about. I actually had to comment on every passage, so it would make sense to an English-speaking reader while it still preserved the essence of the story. I could probably do it better myself.
As far as Gogol is concerned - these Ukrainian stories ... Read More
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Do you buy this Vintage Classics book or buy the Penguin Classics translation by Ronald Wilks? No contest. The present translation is longer, more stories, good notes, and it is translated by Pevear and Volokhonsky. They are among the best translators of 19th century Russian novels. Buy the present book. I am a literature nut so I bought both. The Penguin Classics has a better introduction plus Gogol's famous play, The Government Inspector. According to Nabokov, it is the best play ever written in Russia. ... Read More
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The book has 2 parts: the ukrainian folklore stories - witches, devils, ogres and what not - interacting with the peasants living in the Ukraine countryside. Nice story telling with a quaint sense of humor. The second part is from St. Petersburg detailing the Russian bourgeoisie life. Mildly funny.
Some stories are a prelude to the surrealism to come out of Europe later - like Kafka. But make no mistake: Gogol is no Kafka.
Only if you have nothing better to read at the moment or the above is ... Read More
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A quick note to counterbalance all of the glowing reviews. Of course, everybody has an opinion, and one can't argue with taste as they say, so let me provide - for your consideration - a representative passage from the first few pages of this translation. From the second page of "St. John's Eve": "I remember like now - the old woman, my late mother, was still alive - how on a long winter's evening, when there was a biting frost outside that walled us up solidly behind the narrow window of our cottage, she ... Read More
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