Nikolai Gogol cracks me up. Our senses of humor are so in-tuned that I think we’re kindred spirits. Maybe we’re even related somehow. It could be true. I’ve heard it argued that comedy once came from those on the lower rungs of the social ladder looking upwards at the antics of their social betters. You can see this in Charlie Chaplin, the Marx Brothers, even … Continue reading How the Two Ivans Quarrelled by Nikolai Gogol
I started off last year reading another Russian novel, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky which ended up being one of my favorite reads of the year. (Dakota enjoyed the book as well. She ate it last July.) I had very little experience with Russian novels, other than the first two-thirds of Anna Karinina I’d not read anything. Besides being an excellent psychological thriller, Crime … Continue reading My 400th post! Dead Sould by Nicolai Gogol
It’s highly possible that I’m no longer rational in my love for NIkolai Gogol. He may not actually be as wonderful as I think he is. So be warned. I’m a Gogol fanboy. The Nose is the story of Collegiate Assessor Kovalyov who wakes up one morning to find that his nose is gone. Aware that he will most likely lose his position in the … Continue reading The Nose by Nikolai Gogol translated from the Russian by Ian Dreiblatt
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