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| Title | : | The Overcoat |
| Author | : | Nikolai Gogol |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 57 pages |
| Published | : | June 30th 2004 by Kessinger Publishing (first published 1842) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Short Stories. Fiction. Cultural. Russia. Literature. Russian Literature |
Nikolai Gogol
Paperback | Pages: 57 pages Rating: 4.14 | 24992 Users | 1719 Reviews
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It is a simple tale, on the surface. Akaky Akakievich (literally "Harmless Son-of-Harmless," but which might sound like "Poopy Pooperson” to a child), an impoverished civil servant and scrivener, must maintain his respectability by possessing a decent overcoat. How he gains a new overcoat, loses that overcoat, and seeks to have the overcoat restored to him constitutes the whole of our story. Dostoevsky has been quoted as saying, “We all come from under Gogol's Overcoat", and it is true that much of Russian literature can be glimpsed in this single short story: it is a satire ranging from buffonery to social commentary, a realist work rooted in naturalistic detail that sometimes descends to the grotesque and the surreal, and yet remains compassionate, maintaining its sympathy for all of us humans and our tragic and ludicrous plight. Not bad for a story slightly more than twelve thousand words in length. Which brings us to the distinctive characteristic of Gogol: he is a literary conjurer, with an extraordinary ability to shift from tone to tone. The Overcoat begins in low comedy, making fun of its character's name, then describes his shabby living conditions until we begin to see the dead flies and smell the onions. Gogol ridicules his protagonist's rigidity and pomposity, but then—when some younger clerks make fun of him—Gogol shifts his tone again until we grow to regard Akaky with an abiding compassion. From there, Gogol sharpens his social satire, tempering it with a comedy touched with pathos, and ends—not in tragedy, as we suspect it might, but—in nightmare and the supernatural. We'll let Nabokov have the last word. “[W]ith Gogol this shifting is the very basis of his art... When, as in the immortal The Overcoat, he really let himself go and pottered on the brink of his private abyss, he became the greatest artist that Russia has yet produced.”
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| Original Title: | Шинель |
| ISBN: | 1419176528 (ISBN13: 9781419176524) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | St. Petersburg, Russia |
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Ratings: 4.14 From 24992 Users | 1719 ReviewsComment On Epithetical Books The Overcoat
Recently I read The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri about two generations of an Indian immigrant family to the United States. The main theme of the novel was that the father Ashoke was reading The Overcoat on a train journey. The train derailed and this slim book saved his life. Indebted to the book, Ashoke decided to name his newborn son Nikhil but gave him the nickname Gogol, after the Russian writer whose works he adored. Lahiri even includes snippets of Gogol's life in her novel, but until now IMy first story by Nikolai Gogol is definitely not my last. This quirky little ghost story is more humorous than scary in that it pokes fun of government bureaucrats in a manner not unlike that seen in several Dickens stories.
And again, with his wit and his lyrical prose, Gogol does not fail to mesmerize the reader. A tale of an eccentric clerk who becomes--much to his own surprise--besotted with the idea of an overcoat; oh, the travails and sufferings, the ordeals the wretched soul has to go through for the mere acquisition of an.....overcoat! But what of the exquisite happiness, the festivities and jubilations that this lifeless form--the overcoat--brings along. And then, why in the seven heavens the heart cries,
Painstakingly beautiful.
I absolutely love it ... Kamaszkin as a tragic character always moves me ...
One of the great short-stories from one of the most influential writers of the 19th century. This is only brief in length but comes across as very perceptive of the human condition. Told with a splash of subtle humour and with themes of vanity, self-delusion, and poverty, Gogol's dizzying tale looks at one Akaky Akakiyevich, a St Petersburg office clerk who buys and then loses a new cloak with a cat-fur collar. Whilst wearing it he is transformed into a different person, one of sociable
THE OVERCOAT is a classic Russian satire first published in 1842. It is an atmospheric short story packed with substance and emotion.THE OVERCOAT belongs to AA, an extremely poor man with an extremely undemanding, meagerly-paying government job, but he diligently completes his work day and night. He is criticized for his apparel and lacks social acceptance.THE OVERCOAT is old...torn...threadbare...can no longer be mended. AA is sad...devastated, he lacks rubles for a new one. He must curtail
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