Gogoliana

Vladislav Otroshenko is a writer, author of the books “The Drama of a Snowy Night: a Investigative Novel about the Fate and Criminal Case of Sukhov-Kobylin”, “It Is Not Enough to Kill a Genius”, novels “Appendix to a Photo Album”,... “A Character Outside of Truthfulness”. Laureate of the “Clear Glade” and the Italian literary award “Grinzane Cavour”. "Gogol and Paradise, Gogol and Hell, Gogol and the Second Volume, Gogol and the Lethargic Sleep, Gogol and Elementary Particles... It was as if I had entered a vast and mysterious building through a hidden passage, where everything used to seem familiar, and now suddenly unexplored spaces opened up. What happened to Gogol in life, in art, in death, in sleep, and beyond the grave. In “Gogoliana”, I allowed myself not to fantasize, not to invent images that resemble reality. I allow myself to exploit reality itself. This book embodies my principle of phantasmagoria. It is simple: truth can be stranger than any fiction" (Vladislav Otroshenko).