Nikolai Gogol. - Libros y biografía

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...

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Le journal d'un fou est un conte absurde dans lequel les personnages étranges laissent peu à peu place à leurs caractères réels, le rire cédant le pas à l'angoisse tout au long de ce journal. Poprichtchine...

Le journal d'un fou est un conte absurde dans lequel les personnages étranges laissent peu à peu place à leurs caractères réels, le rire cédant le pas à l'angoisse tout au long de ce journal. Poprichtchine...

Venez découvrir Le Révizor, la pièce de théâtre de Nikolaï Gogol, grâce à une analyse littéraire de référence. Écrite par un spécialiste universitaire, cette fiche de lecture est recommandée par de nombreux...

Venez découvrir Le Mariage, la pièce de théâtre de Nikolaï Gogol, grâce à une analyse littéraire de référence. Écrite par un spécialiste universitaire, cette fiche de lecture est recommandée par de nombreux...

Nikolai Gogol's The Nose is a satirical short story that follows the absurd tale of a St. Petersburg official who wakes up one morning to find that his nose has inexplicably gone missing. Written in a...

'The Night of Christmas Eve' is a story written by Nikolai Gogol. The story opens with a description of the winter scenery of Dikanka, Ukraine. A witch flies across the night sky and the devil steals...

"The Nose" is divided into three parts and tells the story of Collegiate Assessor ('Major') Kovalyov, who wakes up one morning without his nose. He later finds out that his nose has developed a life of...

Lorsque Khlestakov, jeune voyageur pétersbourgeois endetté et affamé, arrive dans «un petit trou de province», il ne s’attend pas à un tel accueil. Hébergement, vins, cigares, vêtements et équipages élégants:...

"The Lost Letter" is a short story by Gogol published in his 1831 collection "Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka". In it, an exuberant narrator, the old sexton Foma, humorously recounts the story about his...

The last story from the "Mirgorod" cycle, here Gogol presents two landowners deadlocked in an argument over a Turkish rifle, a brown pig, and a goose insult. What results is a playful satire and parody...

"The Fair at Sorochyntsi" by Nikolai Gogol is a short story set in a Ukrainian village in 1800. A man travels with his daughter and wife to a fair to sell some of their belongings. Their lives are quickly...

Teeming with dark humour, supernatural elements, and hard-to-believe situations, Nikolai Gogol's "Collected Stories" is a highest form of short story fiction. With stories like "The Mantle", "The Nose",...

A sorcerer. Nightmares. Secrets. Not the usual components of a love story but Nikolai Gogol's short horror story follows the love story of Danilo and Katerina as they deal with the presence of an evil...

Listed among the most beloved Russian plays, "The Inspector General" is a vivid portrayal of human greed and foolishness. Savagely criticizing the political corruption of Imperial Russia, the play tells...

Nikolai Gogol's novel Dead Souls is one of the best-known pieces of 19th-century Russian literature. Chichikov is a mysterious man, who arrives at a small town with a strange plan of acquiring "dead souls."...

"A most extraordinary thing happened in St. Petersburg on the twenty-fifth of March." The opening lines of "The Nose", one of Gogol's best-known stories, and quite possibly the most absurd, are just as...

In Nikolai Gogol's short story "May Night, or the Drowned Maiden," a single night ends up changing the lives of many. Young Levko is the son of the head of a Ukrainian village and madly in love with a...

Three students. A deserted house. A witch. This horror novella boasts an abundance of supernatural encounters, dazzling effects, and folktale elements. Included in the cycle 'Mirgorod', this is one of...

How far will a man go for love? The short story "St. John's Eve" by Nikolai Gogol from the 19th century recounts the sinister events that transpired in a poor hamlet generations ago, as relayed by the...

In 'The Night of Christmas Eve' the Devil roams free and decides to steal the moon to punish Vakula, a local blacksmith for his religious paintings, leaving the town of Dikanka in darkness. In this supernatural...

'Taras Bulbas' is a literary epic following an older Cossack named Taras Bulba who takes his sons to war with him against the Poles who rule all of Ukraine. It is a piece of romantic nationalism, inspired...

'Memoirs of a Madman' is a fascinating short following Poprishchin, a minor civil servant, as he descends into insanity. Unique in Golgol's collection, it is the only story he wrote completely from the...

With his sense of humor and ability to observe, Nikolai Gogol presents the world with stories of little people: the weak and fragile people who try to hold on to life in the gloomy cities of Russia. "The...

"The Old World Landowners" is a short story written in 1835. It is the first tale in the "Mirgorod" collection by Nikolai Gogol. The story is a vivid representation of the old-fashioned way of life in...

'100 Obras Maestras de la Literatura Universal' representa una sinfonía literaria de voces, estilos y contextos históricos que abarca desde la Antigüedad hasta el umbral del siglo XXI. Esta colección...

La antología '100 Obras Maestras de la Literatura Universal' congrega una selección sin precedentes de las voces más emblemáticas que han modelado el panorama literario a lo largo de los siglos. Desde...

Quatre nouvelles et récits de célèbres auteurs russes en version bilingue. La série BILINGUE de 12-21 propose :• une traduction fidèle et intégrale, accompagnée de nombreuses notes • une méthode originale...

Dead Souls is a novel by Nikolai Gogol. The purpose of the novel was to demonstrate the flaws and faults of the Russian mentality and character. Gogol portrayed those defects through Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov...