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Nikolay Gogol - The Night Before Christmas, Inbunden

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The Night Before Christmas

Av Nikolay Gogol

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Gogol's classic, uproarious folktale, presented in a beautiful hardcover edition perfect for giving as a gift.Written in 1831, this dark tale relates the adventures of Vakula, the blacksmith, in his fight against the devil, who has stolen the moon above the village of Dikanka and is wreaking havoc on its inhabitants, all to win the love of the most beautiful girl in town. The basis for many film and opera adaptations, and still a story traditionally read aloud to children on Christmas Eve in Ukraine and Russia, The Night Before Christmas is the best holiday tale by the man whom Vladimir Nabokov called 'the greatest writer Russia has yet produced'.Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) was the son of a Ukrainian gentleman farmer. He attended a variety of boarding schools, where he proved an indifferent student but was admired for his theatrical abilities. In 1828 he moved to St. Petersburg and began to publish stories, and by the mid-1830s he had established himself in the literary world and been warmly praised by Pushkin. In 1836, his play The Inspector-General was attacked as immoral, and he left Russia, remaining abroad for most of the next dozen years. During that time he wrote two of his best-known stories, 'The Nose' and 'The Overcoat,' and in 1842 he published the first section of his masterpiece Dead Souls. Gogol became increasingly religious as the years passed, and in 1847 he became the disciple of an Orthodox priest who influenced him to burn the second part of Dead Souls and then abandon writing altogether. After undertaking an extreme fast, he died at the age of forty-two.
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Nikolai Gogol (1809-52) was born in the Ukraine and left for St Peterburg at the age of 19 where he published a collection of short stories and for a short time held the post of professor of history at the university. Gogol's experience of life in St Petersburg informed his savagely satirical play, The Government Inspector, and a series of brilliant short stories including Nevsky Prospekt and Notes of a Madman. From 1836 to 48, Gogol lived abroad, mainly in Rome, where he was working on his comic epic Dead Souls - a work he wrestled with for the rest of his life before renouncing literature and burning parts of the manuscript shortly before he died.

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“For lit nerds and loved ones who are notoriously hard to shop for, you can’t go wrong with these festively bound classics. . . . Their size makes them perfectly stocking-stuffable.” —Entertainment Weekly, “The Must List” “Leave it to the folks at Penguin—who gave us Gothed-out editions of horror classics for Halloween—to package these . . . slim Yuletide-themed volumes.” —Newsday, “Best Books to Give as Holiday Gifts” “Remember how Christmas was celebrated before Black Friday with these 19th-century authors, in small uniform volumes wrapped in pretty jackets.” —USA Today, “Holiday Gift Books So Pretty, No Need to Wrap” “Beautifully designed.” —The Washington Post

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2 recensioner, genomsnitt 4/5

  1. 4/5 Morpheus

    Folksaga möter sängkammarfars

    Den Ukrainsk-födde ryske författaren Nikolai Gogols The Night Before Christmas är en av sex böcker i Penguin Books serie Christmas Classics, där också utgåvor som Hoffmanns Nötknäpparen och Dickens En Julsaga ingår.

    I kort handlar berättelsen om smeden Vakula, som försöker uppvakta sin älskade Oksana men får reda på att hon bara tänker gifta sig med honom om han skaffar ett par utav kejsarinnans skor åt honom, samtidigt som en djävul är lös och ställer till sattyg och ofog i staden, vilket bland annat leder till sängkammarfarsliknande händelser i Vakulas smedja med hans mor, som också är en häxa.

    Även om det är den kortaste av de sex böckerna (65 sidor lång) är den väldigt underhållande. Den liknar klassiska folksagor, men har som sagt komiska, nästan farsartade, bitar och är även berättad på ett snillrikt och roligt sätt, med en del briljanta liknelser. Jag har inte läst Gogol innan, men den här boken gör mig intresserad av att kika närmare på mer av vad han skrivit.
    En del kulturkrockar kan dock ske för läsare som är ovana vid rysk och ukrainsk kultur, då flera ryska ord för saker och klädesplagg förekommer. Men det är ändå lätt att ta sig igenom boken, som i slutändan är en underhållande och fantasirik folksaga.

  2. 4/5 Josefin

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