coincide with the bicentenary of the birth of Nikolai Gogol short stories published one of his most original and lesser known: "I saw." The same author notes that "I saw a huge building in the popular imagination. The Ukrainians designated by that name the head of the gnomes, whose eyelids down to the ground. This whole story is a folk tale. " The story is full of terrifying and ghostly elements, highlighting the wonderful Gogol's narrative pulse. The plot shows the conviction of an innocent, which can only be criticized for having a sense alien to a true Cossack: fear.
Tolstoy, but included "saw" in the recommended readings between 14 and 20 years, called it one of those texts that cause a "huge impression." Many years later, the American critic Edmund Wilson, called Gogol as the greatest writer of short stories that are both horror and psychological or moral problems (compared to Poe, Hawthorne and Melville), calling for "saw" as "a vampire tale, one of the most terrifying specimens of its kind ever written. "
This story of Gogol, that traps us from beginning to end, is beautifully illustrated by Luis Scafati.
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