{"product_id":"and-the-earth-will-sit-on-the-moon-isbn-9781805330332","title":"And the Earth Will Sit on the Moon","description":"\u003cb\u003eIconic short stories from the Russian master of satire, in a strikingly modern translation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The most morally complete writer: baffled, outraged, reverent,   mock-didactic, mocking, all at once. He honours life by feeling no one   way about it.\" — George Saunders\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo writer has captured the absurdity of the human condition as acutely as Nikolai Gogol. In a lively new translation by Oliver Ready, this collection contains his great classic stories - \"The Overcoat\", \"The Nose\" and \"Diary of a Madman\" — alongside lesser known gems depicting life in the Russian and Ukrainian countryside. Together, they reveal Gogol's marvelously skewed perspective, moving between the urban and the rural with painfully sharp humour and scorching satire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStrikingly modern in his depictions of society's shambolic structures, Gogol plunders the depths of bureaucratic and domestic banalities to unearth moments of dark comedy and outrageous corruption. Defying categorisation, the stories in this collection range from the surreal to the satirical to the grotesque, united in their exquisite psychological acuteness and tender insights into the bizarre irrationalities of the human soul.\"Gogol’s prose works feature a fiendishly complex narrative structure. In his engaging new versions, Oliver Ready deploys a rich vocabulary. . . . Along the way, there is much to savour.\" — \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I wish I had written the story 'The Overcoat'. The sensibility of that story is perfect . . . spontaneous and funny and also formally very experimental\" - George Saunders \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the most profound, and influential, writers Russia has ever produced, he is also probably the funniest\" - \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The greatest artist that Russia has yet produced\" - Vladimir Nabokov\u003cb\u003eNikolai Vasilyevich Gogol\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1809 in Ukraine, and moved to St Petersburg after his studies in 1828 to work in an obscure government ministry. His first collection of stories, \u003ci\u003eEvenings on a Farm Near Dikanka \u003c\/i\u003e(1831), made him famous, and he went on to write several further collections of stories, as well as the play \u003ci\u003eThe Government Inspector\u003c\/i\u003e. Part I of his great, and only novel, \u003ci\u003eDead Souls\u003c\/i\u003e, appeared in 1842. In his later life he was increasingly tormented both physically and psychologically, and he burned much of his writing, including part II of \u003ci\u003eDead Souls\u003c\/i\u003e. He died in 1852, possibly from self-starvation.The Nose\u003cbr\u003e I\u003cbr\u003e A most peculiar thing happened in St Petersburg on March 25th. The barber Ivan\u003cbr\u003e Yakovlevich (only his first name and patronymic have been preserved: even his shop\u003cbr\u003e sign, which depicts a gentleman with a lathered cheek and the words We Also Let Blood,\u003cbr\u003e says nothing about his surname), the barber Ivan Yakovlevich, who lives on\u003cbr\u003e Voznesensky Prospect, woke quite early and caught the smell of hot bread. Lifting\u003cbr\u003e himself up a little in bed, he saw his spouse, quite a worthy lady who was very fond of\u003cbr\u003e coffee, taking some freshly baked loaves out of the stove.\u003cbr\u003e “I won’t have any coffee today, Praskovya Osipovna,” Ivan Yakovlevich said.\u003cbr\u003e “Today I’m in the mood for some warm bread and onion.”\u003cbr\u003e (In fact, Ivan Yakovlevich would have liked both coffee and bread, but he knew\u003cbr\u003e that demanding two things at once was out of the question: Praskovya Osipovna\u003cbr\u003e strongly disapproved of all such whims.)\u003cbr\u003e “More fool him,” his spouse thought to herself. “Means an extra cup for me.” And\u003cbr\u003e she chucked a loaf onto the table.\u003cbr\u003e Donning his tailcoat over his nightshirt to make himself decent, Ivan Yakovlevich\u003cbr\u003e sat down at the table, sprinkled some salt, peeled two onions, picked up a knife and,\u003cbr\u003e making a serious face, addressed the loaf. After cutting it in two equal halves, he was\u003cbr\u003e surprised to spot something white inside. Ivan Yakovlevich poked about gingerly with\u003cbr\u003e the knife and had a feel with his finger. “Pretty firm!” he said to himself. “What could it\u003cbr\u003e be?”\u003cbr\u003e He stuck his fingers in and pulled out… a nose! Ivan Yakovlevich froze; he began\u003cbr\u003e rubbing his eyes and feeling the thing: a nose, most definitely a nose! And not just any\u003cbr\u003e old nose, but a nose he knew. Ivan Yakovlevich’s face was a picture of horror. But this\u003cbr\u003e horror was nothing compared to the rage that had overcome his spouse.","brand":"Pushkin Press Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301693968613,"sku":"NP9781805330332","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781805330332.jpg?v=1767721559","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/and-the-earth-will-sit-on-the-moon-isbn-9781805330332","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}