The Overcoat
Nikolai Gogol, 1842
Шине́ль
Russia
112 pages
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✔ Russian classic tragedy
✔ Life of a simple officer
✔ Russian bureaucracy and frustration
🔽 Review summary 🔽
★★★★☆ Life is not fair. A tragedy but also a sad comedy. Russian literature is bottomless. A man saves money for ages and buys a new coat, and it gets stolen. Regardless of time and society we live in, we share the anger and desperation.
🔽 Book review and notes 🔽
Short stories of the famous Gogol.
You do see a lot of Dostoyevsky in his stories, that the life is unfair, and stories are tragedies yet sadly comical.
Written in this period in Russia, the stories are critical of the bureaucracy and of higher ranked officials.
A regular official saves up to get an overcoat and gets robbed, it's simple as that, and though it's keeping it subtle it is fully miserable, and universal, we totally understand how the protagonist is feeling at every stage of the story.
The story is ridiculous yet believable, and again universal.
Russian literature is bottomless.
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