Notes of a Madman

"The Overcoat", "The Nose", "The Portrait" and other "Petersburg Tales" by Gogol still astonish the reader with their diversity. Realism is closely intertwined with fantasy, tragedy with playful humor. Reading and re-reading them, we involuntarily empathize with the miserable clerk Akaky Akakyevich, passionately follow the phantasmagoric adventures of the nose that has come to life, having escaped from its owner, and experience the tragedy of the artist who was deceived in his "genius of pure beauty" - and again and again discover the relevance of Gogol, who uniquely knew how to see the eternal and great behind the private and petty.