The Overcoat, Nikolai Gogol, written between 1839 and 1841, and published in 1842, we presents one of the most moving characters in literature: Akaky Bashmachkin, an official at the lowest level of civil administration, which is outraged by social injustice and selfish indifference of the strong and rich, and whose destination is of being a "little man." Akaki for protection from the freezing winter in St. Petersburg, needs a new coat, but when she finally will get cold noticing the freezing cold that lives in the hearts of people around him. This wonderful tale and its protagonist have great influence on later literature, Herman Melville and Franz Kafka submitted to Bartleby and Gregor Samsa, two characters are direct descendants of Akaki.
illustrations that will make this book memorable for readers of all ages are Villamuza Naomi, who has illustrated in this same collection Babette's Feast.
"I still believe that there are cracks in the artistic history-if we consider the form and content separately," a crack that does not exist in Gogol's The Overcoat and Metamorphosis Kafka. "Vladimir Nabokov
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