How the Two Ivans Quarrelled: and Other Russian Comic Stories

ISBN-13: 9781847496645 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 176 str.

Nikolai Gogol;Guy Daniels

Opis

Written in Persian, The Blind Owl is predominantly a love story - an unconventional love story that elicits visions and nightmare reveries fromthe depths of the reader's subconscious. A young man, an old man and a beautiful young girl perform, as if framed within a Persian miniature,a ritual of destruction as gradually the narrator, and the reader, discover the meaning hidden within the dreams. This unforgettable story contains a unique blend of the mystery of the Arabian Nights and an acutely contemporary sense of panic and hallucination.

Recenzje

A fantastic, self-parodic, mock-heroic folk tale. Patrick McCabe

O autorze

Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) won fame as a short story writer, and in 1836, his satirical comedy The Government Inspector created such a furore that Gogol left Russia to settle in Rome, in self-imposed exile. Religious mania in his later years contributed to his early death in Moscow.