Name: The overcoat and other short stories
ISBN: 0486270572

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

The overcoat and other short stories

Safiya 

Psychological Fiction !
I finally found a name for the genre I always liked !
I remember it one of the best Russian lit books I've ever read. It is composed of short novels all of which are a satire of Russian bureaucracy and commitment to administrative hierarchy... An absurd quarrel between statuts (past and present, inferior and superior, ...) It's ridiculously entertaining ! And awfully enough, as it is written everywhere, even Dostoevsky himself declares that all Russian writers come from Gogol's "The overcoat" !

Sasha Lukavchenko

coriander

Romaissa Bellarbi 

Alfredo santos

Giovanni Garcia-Fenech 

Dobrila Šunde

Shannon Smith

Eva Talmadge

The overcoat and other short stories

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