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| Title | : | Diary of a Madman |
| Author | : | Nikolai Gogol |
| Book Format | : | ebook |
| Book Edition | : | Smashwords |
| Pages | : | Pages: 249 pages |
| Published | : | November 21st 2014 by Watersgreen House (first published 1835) |
| Categories | : | Short Stories. Fiction. Cultural. Russia. Classics. Literature. Russian Literature |
Nikolai Gogol
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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809-1852), although Russian, was born in the village of Sorochyntsi in the Poltava Oblast province of central Ukraine. He was never accepted by the Russian public as being completely Russian in his thinking and political ideology, and indeed he was not. Gogol's Ukrainian upbringing is most evident in his early works which draw heavily from Ukrainian culture and folk history. His later writing was more subversive, openly satirizing the corruption he saw rampant throughout Russia's empire. Gogol was homosexual. At age seventeen he wrote passionate letters to a friend who, being two years older, had graduated before Gogol, leaving him bereft. Gogol eventually exiled himself from Russia, living in Rome. It was here that he enjoyed at least one mutual love affair with a man, but his lover died within a year of their meeting. Two years later Gogol fell in love with the poet Nikolai Yazykov and penned love letters to him, but his efforts came to nothing. Gogol died in Moscow and was buried at Davilov Monastery. His last words were placed on his tombstone: "And I shall laugh my bitter laugh." When Soviet authorities decided to demolish the monastery in 1931 and transfer Gogol's remains, it was discovered his body had been buried lying face down, leading some to wonder if he had been buried alive.
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"Date none. The day had no date."The only force that pushed me through the first two-thirds of Diary of a Madman was Dostoyevsky's opinion of Gogol, with nonetheless a constant thought hovering over my head: "something is definitely wrong, either with Fyodor or with me." That first part is a pale narration of prodromal psychosis, which could very well be a lame work of fantasy. But then! then, the catapult, the descent into madness so brusquely, so delightfully portrayed [timid exclamation mark;A deluge of thoughts came down on him. Thoughts without sense of purpose or direction that caused a little stir and numerous inquisitive looks.Conversations with a dog. Delusions of grandeur; persecutions that might have never existed. Envy that mumbles incoherent things, day in day out: silence is a privilege reserved for others, an idyllic state he has been forbidden from finding again; illegible theory in a dusty old notebook. Words accumulate in the corners of a dim lighted room where
A deluge of thoughts came down on him. Thoughts without sense of purpose or direction that caused a little stir and numerous inquisitive looks.Conversations with a dog. Delusions of grandeur; persecutions that might have never existed. Envy that mumbles incoherent things, day in day out: silence is a privilege reserved for others, an idyllic state he has been forbidden from finding again; illegible theory in a dusty old notebook. Words accumulate in the corners of a dim lighted room where
You dont think of classic authors - and classic Russian authors - as funny. Theyre supposed to be sitting down, sighing, dour and long-faced over the fate of Russia, their souls, serfdom, or whether or not to sod off to Moscow. Not so with Gogol. His humour is genuine, if whimsical. Almost anything is enough to set him off - clothes, the office, noses.
So powerful are ancient customs in Spain!
thoughts a deluge and flood of thoughts with no sense or direction that is Diary of a Madman. Indeed, powerful and very well-written!
This is a heart touching short account of a man who is mentally unstable. His delusional mind is so well portrayed as he slowly sunk into complete insanity. Additionally, the author also shows how isolated such a person really is from the rest of the world and then goes onto expose the inhuman and shocking treatment met by those insane in lunatic asylum. It is very sad little story. And even though Gogol had employed a light tone to tell the story, the underlying gravity is inevitable. As always
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