Nordic Books reissued on the bicentennial of the birth of Gogol 'Vi', one of the stories 'original'
SEVILLA, 26 (EUROPA PRESS)
The Nordic Books imprint to coincide with the bicentenary of the birth of Nikolai Gogol, published one of the "most original stories and lesser known" the Ukrainian authorities 'Vi', which has accounted for this edition with the translation of Victor Gallego and the work "wonderful" Luis Scafati illustration.
As reported by the Europa Press editorial, the author himself defined his work as "a colossal creation of the popular imagination, as the Ukrainian designated by that name the leader of the gnomes, whose eyelids down to the ground, doing everything the story a folk tale. "
In this regard, he noted that the story is filled with "terrifying and ghostly elements, highlighting the wonderful Gogol's narrative pulse." The argument shows readers the conviction of an innocent, who can blame only have had a sense alien to a true Cossack, fear.
Tolstoy, but included 'Vi' 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 said Gogol as "the greatest writer of short stories that are both horror and psychological or moral problems, compared with Egdar Allan Poe, Hawthorne and Melville, and stated that ' Vi 'is "a story of the most terrifying specimens of its kind ever written."
Nikolai Gogol, born in Ukraine, moved 19 years St. Petersburg to try, unsuccessfully, to build a future as a bureaucrat of the tsarist administration. Among his early works include "The Dikanka evenings', 'Mirgorod' and 'Arabesque'.
published in 1836 comedy 'The inspector', a satire of corruption in the bureaucracy that forced the writer to leave the country temporarily. Installed in Rome in 1842 he wrote many of his most important work as 'Dead Souls', which he described sarcastically feudal Russia. Also that year he published 'The Overcoat', a work that exerted an enormous influence on Russian literature.
