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Gogol evokes common images of madness in his characterization of Poprishchin – auditory hallucination (the talking dogs), delusions of grandeur (thinking he is the King of Spain), and the institutional context of the asylum and its effect on the individual. In the second half of the nineteenth century, "Diary of a Madman" was frequently cited ...
The Russian TV-3 television series Gogol features Nikolai Gogol as a lead character and presents a fictionalized version of his life that mixes his history with elements from his various stories. [73] The episodes were also released theatrically starting with Gogol. The Beginning in August 2017. A sequel entitled Gogol.
Diary of a Madman (Nikolai Gogol), a short story by Nikolai Gogol; Diary of a Madman (Guy de Maupassant), a short story by Guy de Maupassant; Diary of a Madman (Lu Xun), a short story by Lu Xun, also known as A Madman's Diary; Diary of a Lunatic, a short story by Leo Tolstoy sometimes translated as "The Diary of a Madman"
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories, trans. Ronald Wilks (Penguin, 1972) Plays and Petersburg Tales, trans. Christopher English (Oxford University Press, 1995) The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol, trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (Pantheon, 1998) And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon, trans. Oliver Ready (Pushkin Press, 2019)
Diary of a Madman (Nikolai Gogol) F. The Fair at Sorochyntsi (short story) I. Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt; L. The Lost Letter: A Tale Told by the Sexton of ...
The Diary of a Surgeon in the Year 1751–1752 (1938) Surgeon's Mate: the diary of John Knyveton, surgeon in the British fleet during the Seven Years War 1756–1762 (1942) Man midwife; the further experiences of John Knyveton, M.D., late surgeon in the British fleet, during the years 1763–1809 (1946) Diary of Elizabeth Pepys (1991) by Dale ...
The Carriage" is a prime example of efficient use of the short-story form, with small sentences conveying large amounts of detail about the story's characters and their general environment. A few specific details about the feast, such as the unbuttoned coats of the officers and the increasingly nonsensical questions of the officers, offer a ...
The stories in Mirgorod were composed at different times. “Old World Landowners” was begun in 1832 when Gogol revisited his birthplace of Sorochyntsi after living in Saint Petersburg for five years, [4] “Viy” was begun in 1833, and “The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich” had previously appeared in the almanac Housewarming (Новоселье) in 1834. [5]