Petersburg Tales: Newly Translated and Annotated / Includes the Diary of a Madman (Alma Classics Evergreens)

by Nikolai Gogol (Author), Dora O'Brien (Translator)

• New

  Paperback
  2017

  $9.33

  Also including the 'Diary of Madman', this new translation of Petersburg Tales paint a critical yet hilarious portrait of a city riddled with pomposity and self-importance, masterfully juxtaposing nineteenth-century realism with madcap surrealism, and combining absurdist farce with biting satire.