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Diary of a Madman is a farcical short story by Nikolai Gogol. Along with The Overcoat and The Nose, Diary of a Madman is considered to be one of Gogol's greatest short stories. The tale centers on the life of a minor civil servant during the repressive era of Nicholas I. Following the format of a diary, the story shows the descent of the protagonist, Poprishchin, into insanity. Diary of a Madman, the only one of Gogol's works written in first person, follows diary-entry format.

Taras Bulba, el viejo jefe, se reencuentra con sus dos hijos, Ostap y Andrés, que han estudiado en un seminario de Kiev; hay abrazos, peleas, un exacto fresco de lo que para un cosaco de ley significa la vida en familia. Más tarde, los tres se unen al ejército cosaco, que se lanza a la conquista de diversos dominios polacos. Asistimos a combates, historias de amor, asedios y traiciones, junto a una recreación de las costumbres de época en aquellas duras estepas rusas. Las virtudes literarias de Taras Bulba supusieron el reconocimiento a la obra de Gogol y el inicio de su carrera literaria. Aunque Gogol no volvería a escribir este tipo de novelas, el tiempo ha convertido a Taras Bulba, como Como Ivanhoe o El jorobado de Notre Dame, uno de esos personajes inolvidables que siempre saben ganarse la tranquila admiración de todos sus lectores. *** Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) fue uno de los escritores rusos más controvertidos y admirados de la época. Polémico y enfermizo, sus obras siempre fueron más allá de lo que él mismo pretendía, convirtiéndose en maestro de un realismo incesantemente perturbado por arrebatos fantásticos, alucinaciones e infernales pesadillas. Si Pushkin sienta las bases de la originalidad literaria rusa, él las perfecciona, y a la categoría de obra maestra. Original y compulsivo, brillante y contradictorio, Gogol ha escrito novelas y relatos que son imprescindibles para la comprensión del Siglo de Oro de las letras rusas. En él se armonizan todas las fuentes; su prosa y sus inolvidables personajes marcan, con meridiana claridad, el camino que deberán seguir Turgueniev, Dostoyevsky y Chejov.

Full text.A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of witch in a small old wooden church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him.

"El Viy" es uno de los cuentos clásicos de terror menos conocidos, a pesar de estar escrito por el maestro de las letras rusas, Nikolai Gogol. Esta edición incluye doce ilustraciones realizadas para la misma. Publicado por primera vez en 1835, Gogol recrea y reinterpreta con maestría las leyendas inspiradas en la tradición ucraniana, llegando a ser reprobado por la crítica por la realista descripción de los monstruos infernales. Tres jóvenes estudiantes de Kiev parten de la ciudad para pasar las vacaciones de julio. Perdidos en el bosque, finalmente llegan a una alquería dónde pasar la noche. Pero Jomá Brut, un seminarista, tiene un horroroso encuentro con una bruja, a la que consigue dejar moribunda. Más tarde será obligado a rezar durante tres noches delante del ataúd de una bella joven fallecida en misteriosas circunstancias. Aunque el seminarista desea huir, los cosacos al servicio de la fallecida, no le dejan otra opción que encerrarse a solas en la iglesia junto al ataúd de la muerte dónde pasará tres noches terroríficas. Escrito con la habitual rica prosa de Gogol, "El Viy" no es sólo un cuento sobrenatural, sino también un reflejo del folclore y la vida en la Ucrania de la época, aunando lo fantástico con lo cotidiano. Narrado con tal maestría, que el monstruo que da nombre al relato, inventado por el autor, se ha convertido en una más de las criaturas míticas eslavas. * Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) fue uno de los escritores rusos más controvertidos y admirados de la época. Polémico y enfermizo, sus obras siempre fueron más allá de lo que él mismo pretendía, convirtiéndose en maestro de un realismo incesantemente perturbado por arrebatos fantásticos, alucinaciones e infernales pesadillas. Si Pushkin sienta las bases de la originalidad literaria rusa, él las perfecciona, y a la categoría de obra maestra. Original y compulsivo, brillante y contradictorio, Gogol ha escrito novelas y relatos que son imprescindibles para la comprensión del Siglo de Oro de las letras rusas. En él se armonizan todas las fuentes; su prosa y sus inolvidables personajes marcan, con meridiana claridad, el camino que deberán seguir Turgueniev, Dostoyevsky y Chejov.

Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka is a collection of short stories by Nikolai Gogol, written from 1831-1832. They appeared in various magazines and were published in book form when Gogol, who had spent his life in today's Ukraine up to the age of nineteen, was twenty-two. He put his early impressions and memories of childhood into these pictures of peasant life. This was Gogol's groundbreaking work, though not his first, and formed the core of his style, especially his sense of the macabre. It was this collection that proved he was a new power in Russian literature with unique innovation and a carefully arranged mingling of the horrifying and the humorous.

A middle-class social climber named Chichikov embarks upon a journey to collect 'dead souls.' These 'dead souls' are in fact serfs who have died since the last census was taken-though dead, they have not yet been removed from official records, and are therefore subject to taxation. In an entertaining story about Chichikov's bizarre plan to take out a loan against all the 'dead souls' he acquires, Gogol presents his shady protagonist against a grimly humorous backdrop of supporting characters.

The Government Inspector, also known as The Inspector General, is a satirical work by the Russian dramatist and novelist Nikolai Gogol. Originally published in 1836, the play was revised for an 1842 edition. Based upon an anecdote allegedly recounted to Gogol by Pushkin, the play is a comedy of errors, satirizing human greed, stupidity, and the extensive political corruption of Imperial Russia.

Taras Bulba is a romanticized historical novella by Nikolai Gogol. It tells the story of an old Zaporozhian Cossack. Taras Bulba, and his two sons. Andriy and Ostap. Taras' sons studied at the Kiev Academy and return home. The three men set out on a journey to Zaporizftian Sich located in Southern Ukraine, where they join other Cossacks and go to war against Poland. The work is non-fictional in nature, in that the main character is based on several historical personalities, and other characters are not as exaggerated or grotesque as was common in Gogol's later fiction. This story can be understood in the context of the Romantic nationalism movement in literature, which developed around a historical ethnic culture which meets the Romantic ideal.

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The news that a government inspector is due to arrive in a small Russian town sends its bureaucrats into a panicked frenzy. A simple case of mistaken identity exposes the hypocrisy and corruption at the heart of the town in this biting moral satire.

In einer Ministerialabteilung also diente ein Beamter, irgendeiner. Man kann nicht gut sagen, er hätte herausgeragt aus der Schar der anderen, denn er war klein, pockennarbig, rothaarig, kurzsichtig, hatte eine Glatze und kleine verrunzelte Bäckchen, und aus seiner Gesichtsfarbe konnte man auf Hämorrhoiden schließen. Doch dagegen ist nichts zu machen. Schuld trägt das Petersburger Klima. Um seinen Rang nicht zu vergessen, da man bei uns vor allem den Rang angeben muß er war das, was man einen ewigen Titularrat nennt, über welchen sich bekanntlich hier schon verschiedene Schriftsteller lustig gemacht haben; diese können nun einmal nicht von der Gewohnheit lassen, gerade auf solche Leute loszugehen, die sich nicht wehren können. Er hieß Baschmatschkin, und sein Vorname lautete Akaki Akakiewitsch. Es ist wohl möglich, daß letzterer dem Leser merkwürdig und ein wenig gesucht erscheine, doch ich kann ihm versichern, daß nach diesem Namen in Wirklichkeit nicht gesucht worden war, daß vielmehr Umstände eingetreten waren, die jeden anderen ausschlossen, und das hatte sich so zugetragen. Akaki Akakiewitsch wurde, wenn ich mich recht erinnere, in der Nacht des 23. März geboren. Seine selige Mutter, eine Beamtenfrau und ein überaus braves Weib, machte, wie sich das gehört, sofort Anstalten, daß das Kind getauft werde. Sie lag noch im Bett, und rechts von ihr stand der Pate Iwan Iwanowitsch Jeroschkin, Abteilungschef im Senat und ein ganz ausgezeichneter Mann, und die Patin Arina Semenowa Bjelobruschowa, die Gattin eines Polizeileutnants und zudem mit seltenen Tugenden begabt. Pate und Patin ließen der Wöchnerin die Wahl zuerst unter folgenden drei Namen: Mokia, Sossia und Chosdadat, der Märtyrer, doch sie wollte nicht: »Nein, das sind alles so Namen.« Um sie zufriedenzustellen, wurde der Kalender an einer anderen Stelle aufgeschlagen, und da kamen die Namen: Trefilius, Dula und Barachassius heraus. »Das ist ja wie eine Strafe Gottes!« rief jetzt die Mutter. »Was für schreckliche Namen! Nie noch habe ich diese Namen gehört! Wenn wenigstens Barabas oder Baruch dastünde aber Trefilius und Barachassius! Ach! Ach!« Noch einmal drehten der Pate und die Patin die Seite um: da standen aber Pafsikachius und Bachtissius. »Ich sehe schon,« schrie jetzt die Alte, »das ist sein Los. Und weil es nicht anders sein kann, so soll er wie sein Vater heißen. Dieser hieß Akaki und darum soll auch sein Sohn so heißen!« So kam es also zu Akaki Akakiewitsch. Die Taufe wurde nun vollzogen, und dabei weinte das Knäblein und verzog das Gesicht so, als hätte es vorausgefühlt, daß es einmal Titularrat sein würde. Ich habe das alles ausgeführt, damit der Leser selber sehe, daß es gar nicht anders sein konnte und ein anderer Name unter diesen Umständen rein unmöglich und gänzlich ausgeschlossen gewesen wäre.

Ivan Ivanovitsh ja Ivan Nikiforovitsh ovat naapurit ja hyvat ystavat. Naapurusten valille syntyy kuitenkin riitaa varsin mitattomasta asiasta. Vaikka kaipuu toisen seuraan on suuri, ei kumpikaan ole valmis antamaan periksi. Lopulta asia etenee oikeuteen asti. Miten riita ratkeaa, loytavatko ystavykset viimein tiensa takaisin toistensa luokse?Gogolin humoristinen pienoisromaani ilahduttaa elavaisella henkilokuvauksellaan ja piikikkaalla satiirillaan. -

Taras Bulballe on kunnia-asia, etta hanen pojistaan tulee isansa tapaan menestyneita kasakoita. Tavoitteeseen paastakseen Bulba suuntaa poikiensa Ostapin ja Andrein kanssa kasakoiden leirikaupunkiin Dnepr-joen varrelle.Perilla tunnelma on kuitenkin kovin seesteinen eika tulevista taisteluista ole tietoakaan. Taras Bulba ei ole tyytyvainen, joten han paattaa laittaa asioihin hieman vauhtia. Pojille on jarjestettava mahdollisuus nayttaa sotaosaamisensa. Nikolai Gogolin isanmaanrakkautta huokuvasta kertomuksesta on tehty kaksi samaa nimea kantavaa elokuvaversiota, yksi Yhdysvalloissa (1962) ja yksi Venajalla (2009).-

Pietarilaisen parturi Jakovlevitsin aamu alkaa ikavalla yllatyksella. Han nimittain loytaa aamiaisleipansa sisalta nenan. Nena kuuluu kollegioasessori Kovaljoville, joka tuntee olonsa kaikin puolin vajaaksi huomatessaan nenansa puuttuvan. Nena itse ei tasta piittaa, vaan ryhtyy elamaan ihan omaa elamaansa. Gogolin absurdi klassikkonovelli viihdyttaa ja houkuttelee erilaisiin tulkintoihin. Jarjen ja jarjettomyyden valimaastossa liikkuva tarina ei kuitenkaan tarjoa suoria vastauksia. -

Part of the Norton Library series"As Kate Holland notes in her fine introduction to these new translations, Nikolai Gogol is a hybrid: Ukrainian-Russian, Romantic-Realist, equal parts nightmare and satire. Michael Katz hears this hybrid tension. We sense the terror and fantasy of Ukrainian folklore flooding Petersburg space, revealing a Gogol for our haunted times."-Caryl Emerson (Princeton University)The Norton Library edition of Selected Tales features a collection of Nikolai Gogol's most regarded short fiction: "Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Auntie," "Nevsky Prospect," "Notes of a Madman," "The Nose," "The Carriage," "The Portrait," and "The Overcoat" newly translated by Michael R. Katz. An introduction by Kate Holland situates the stories in the historical context of imperial St. Petersburg, inviting readers to appreciate Gogol's incisive social critique and the transformative vision of his writing.The Norton Library is a growing collection of high-quality texts and translations-influential works of literature and philosophy-introduced and edited by leading scholars. Norton Library editions prepare readers for their first encounter with the works that they'll re-read over a lifetime.Inviting introductions highlight the work's significance and influence, providing the historical and literary context students need to dive in with confidence.Endnotes and an easy-to-read design deliver an uninterrupted reading experience, encouraging students to read the text first and refer to endnotes for more information as needed.An affordable price (most $10 or less) encourages students to buy the book and to come to class with the assigned edition.About the Authors:Michael R. Katz is C. V. Starr Professor Emeritus of Russian and East European Studies at Middlebury College. He has published translations of more than fifteen Russian novels, including Crime and Punishment, Notes from Underground, and The Brothers Karamazov.Kate Holland is Associate Professor of Russian Literature in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Toronto. She is the author of The Novel in the Age of Disintegration: Dostoevsky and the Problem of Genre in the 1870s. She is President of the North American Dostoevsky Society.

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Nikolai Gogol, an early 19th century Ukrainian-born Russian novelist, humorist, and dramatist, considered the father of modern Russian realism, created some of the most important works of Russian literature. Gogol satirized the corrupt bureaucracy of the Russian Empire through the scrupulous and scathing realism of his writing, which would ultimately lead to his exile. Among some of his finest works are his short stories. A representative selection of Gogol's short stories are presented in this volume. The following stories can be found herein: "The Fair of Sorotchinetz", "St. John's Eve", "An Evening in May", "Old-Fashioned Farmers", "The Viy", "The Night of Christmas Eve", "How the Two Ivans Quarrelled", "The Mysterious Portrait", "The Diary of a Madman", "The Nose", "The Carriage", and "The Overcoat". This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.