Zapiski sumasshedshego - Gogol' Nikolai Vasil'evich

"Shinel," "Nose," "Portrait" and other "Petersburg novella" Gogol still amaze the reader with its diversity. Realism in them is closely intertwined with fiction, tragedy - with mischievous humor. Reading and rereading them, we unwittingly sympathize with the pathetic official Akakiy Akakiyevich, enthusiastically watching the phantasmagoric adventures of the nose who survived his own life, escaped from the owner, experience the tragedy of the artist, deceived in his " geniuses of pure beauty, and again and again discover the relevance of Gogol, as no one who could for private and small to see the eternal and the great.