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| Title | : | Diary of a Madman |
| Author | : | Nikolai Gogol |
| Book Format | : | ebook |
| Book Edition | : | Smashwords |
| Pages | : | Pages: 331 pages |
| Published | : | November 21st 2014 by Watersgreen House (first published 1835) |
| Categories | : | Short Stories. Fiction. Cultural. Russia. Classics. Literature. Russian Literature |
Nikolai Gogol
ebook | Pages: 331 pages Rating: 3.72 | 2742 Users | 140 Reviews
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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809-1852), although Russian, was born in the village of Sorochyntsi in the Poltava Oblast province of central Ukraine. He was never accepted by the Russian public as being completely Russian in his thinking and political ideology, and indeed he was not. Gogol's Ukrainian upbringing is most evident in his early works which draw heavily from Ukrainian culture and folk history. His later writing was more subversive, openly satirizing the corruption he saw rampant throughout Russia's empire. Gogol was homosexual. At age seventeen he wrote passionate letters to a friend who, being two years older, had graduated before Gogol, leaving him bereft. Gogol eventually exiled himself from Russia, living in Rome. It was here that he enjoyed at least one mutual love affair with a man, but his lover died within a year of their meeting. Two years later Gogol fell in love with the poet Nikolai Yazykov and penned love letters to him, but his efforts came to nothing. Gogol died in Moscow and was buried at Davilov Monastery. His last words were placed on his tombstone: "And I shall laugh my bitter laugh." When Soviet authorities decided to demolish the monastery in 1931 and transfer Gogol's remains, it was discovered his body had been buried lying face down, leading some to wonder if he had been buried alive.
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Ratings: 3.72 From 2742 Users | 140 ReviewsNotice Appertaining To Books Diary of a Madman
3.5 starsthis book is wild. Poprishchin's insanity is terrifying but funny at the same time. I saw this short story as a play a month ago and I loved it then, and it was still good as a book but I feel like it's missed the frightening madness and the amount of pain this man felt during his life. the references to Russian's political and financial situation at Gogol's times were also very exciting, but as mentioned, the book could've been a lot more impactful if it was a bit longer and focusedThe book is a funny yet lonely journey to a madman's mind.The Author succeeded in revealing what goes on inside it--anything is possible except Truth.
A deluge of thoughts came down on him. Thoughts without sense of purpose or direction that caused a little stir and numerous inquisitive looks.Conversations with a dog. Delusions of grandeur; persecutions that might have never existed. Envy that mumbles incoherent things, day in day out: silence is a privilege reserved for others, an idyllic state he has been forbidden from finding again; illegible theory in a dusty old notebook. Words accumulate in the corners of a dim lighted room where
What a weird novel, what a strange story.It is crazy how the first person narrator himself knows to be odd and he is writing it to himself as he is speaking through the dog Felice.The last pages of the books are very sad. The narrator is not able even in the own madness to understand what is going wrong.
Gogol really suits me.
It was worth reading again. If you are looking for something extremely original, and that's also funny and sort of confusingintentionally confusing, probably this is your book. You can read it in less than an hour, I bet.
He can't accept that the woman he's fallen in love with from afar will marry someone of higher social standing, so he decides to become the King of Spain. Also, he whines about how muslims are taking over France.Basically, the only thing here that doesn't make the main character seem like any current-day MRA loser is that he's actually thrown in the loony bin.
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