Book Club

Join us for a discussion of The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol. 

Nikolai Gogol founded realism in Russian literature. His works include The Overcoat (1842) and Dead Souls (1842). His biting satire, comic realism, and descriptions of Russian provincials and petty bureaucrats influenced later Russian masters Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. 

The compassion, simplicity, and gentle humor with which he treats the poignant quest of a hapless civil servant for the return of his stolen overcoat—and the fantastic yet realistic manner in which he takes revenge on his nemesis, the Very Important Person—mark "The Overcoat" as one of the greatest achievements of Gogol's genius.

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