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Diary of a Madman and Other Tales

Author
Nikolai Gogol
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
3 hours 36 minutes
ISBN
9781802566079
Published
12 May 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • madness
  • satire
  • absurdity
  • societal norms
  • civil servant
  • lost nose
  • irony
  • social critique
  • human psyche
  • Russian society

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A low-ranking civil servant slides into madness in Diary of a Madman, while The Nose sends a man?s lost nose living a life of its own through the city. Gogol?s satirical tales of absurdity, social pressure, and the Russian psyche under comic and macabre light. Spoken as when the ordinary day tips into nightmare without leaving the office.

Author

Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852) was the master of a satire so quiet it can seem harmless — until the ground shifts beneath it. In Dead Souls he mapped the hollow soul of imperial Russia with comic precision; in The Overcoat and The Nose he turned ordinary clerks and missing body parts into fables of humiliation, obsession, and bureaucratic nightmare.

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