{"product_id":"the-nose-and-other-stories-by-nikolai-gogol-9780231190695","title":"The Nose and Other Stories","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNikolai Gogol's novel \u003cem\u003eDead Souls\u003c\/em\u003e and play \u003cem\u003eThe Government Inspector\u003c\/em\u003e revolutionised Russian literature and continue to entertain generations of readers around the world. Yet Gogol's peculiar genius comes through most powerfully in his short stories. By turns—or at once—funny, terrifying, and profound, the tales collected in \u003cem\u003eThe Nose and Other Stories\u003c\/em\u003e are among the greatest achievements of world literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese stories showcase Gogol's vivid, haunting imagination: an encounter with evil in a darkened church, a downtrodden clerk who dreams only of a new overcoat, a nose that falls off a face and reappears around town on its own, outranking its former owner. Written between 1831 and 1842, they span the colourful setting of rural Ukraine to the unforgiving urban landscape of St. Petersburg to the ancient labyrinth of Rome. Yet they share Gogol's characteristic obsessions—city crowds, bureaucratic hierarchy and irrationality, the devil in disguise—and a constant undercurrent of the absurd.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSusanne Fusso's translations pay careful attention to the strangeness and wonder of Gogol's style, preserving the inimitable humour and oddity of his language. \u003cem\u003eThe Nose and Other Stories\u003c\/em\u003e reveals why Russian writers from Dostoevsky to Nabokov have returned to Gogol as the cornerstone of their unparalleled literary tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47603256328428,"sku":"9780231190695","price":33.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780231190695-the-nose-and-other-stories.jpg?v=1778058913","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-nose-and-other-stories-by-nikolai-gogol-9780231190695","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}