And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon

Admired by writers from Nabokov to Bulgakov to George Saunders, Gogol is considered one of the more enigmatic of the Russian greats. He only wrote one novel, Dead Souls, and destroyed much of his later work, so his stories constitute his major output.

In this collection, beautifully and skilfully translated by Oliver Ready, Gogol’s three greatest St Petersburg stories – ‘The Nose’, ‘The Overcoat’ and ‘The Diary of a Madman’ – are presented alongside three masterworks set in the Ukrainian and Russian provinces, demonstrating the breadth of Gogol’s work.

Gogol’s extraordinary work is characterised by his idiosyncratic, and often very funny sensibility, and these stories offer us his unique, original and marvellously skewed perspective on the world.

Admirat de scriitori de la Nabokov la Bulgakov pana la George Saunders, Gogol este considerat unul dintre cei mai enigmatici dintre marii rusi. El a scris doar un roman, Sufletele moarte, si a distrus o mare parte din lucrarile sale ulterioare, asa ca povestile sale constituie productia sa majora. In aceasta colectie, tradusa frumos si cu indemanare de Oliver Ready, cele mai mari trei povesti ale lui Gogol la Sankt Petersburg - „Nasul”, „ Paltonul "si" Jurnalul unui nebun "- sunt prezentate alaturi de trei capodopere stabilite in provinciile ucrainene si rusesti, demonstrand amploarea operei lui Gogol. Lucrarea extraordinara a lui Gogol se caracterizeaza prin sensibilitatea sa idiosincrazica si adesea foarte amuzanta, precum si aceste povesti ofera-ne perspectiva sa unica, originala si minunata de inclinata asupra lumii.