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Loading... The Overcoat / The Nose (1842)by Nikolai Gogol
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Nose spites face! ( ) Some have called The Overcoat the greatest short story ever; certainly it is one of the best from the Russian tradition. It vies in its own way with The Metamorphosis. These stories are so short that you really need to read them. Gogol is prodigious at the absurd and the everyday; it is not only his wit, but the depth behind his wit, that provokes readers everywhere. no reviews | add a review
Belongs to Publisher SeriesAmstel literaire vierkanten (ALV 5) Centopaginemillelire (44) Reclams Universal-Bibliothek (1744) Contains
It is not necessary to say much about this tailor; but, as it is the custom to have the character of each personage in a novel clearly defined, there is no help for it, so here is Petrovitch the tailor. At first he was called only Grigoriy, and was some gentleman's serf; he commenced calling himself Petrovitch from the time when he received his free papers, and further began to drink heavily on all holidays, at first on the great ones, and then on all church festivities without discrimination, wherever a cross stood in the calendar. No library descriptions found. |
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