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Notes of a Madman

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Nikolai Gogol's "Notes of a Madman" collection opens with five stories from his St. Petersburg cycle—the eponymous one, as well as "The Overcoat," "Nevsky Prospect," "The Nose," and "The Portrait." The book concludes with "The Carriage." These works are quite unlike the joyful and Little Russian flavor of "Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka" and "Mirgorod," which he had written earlier. In the St. Petersburg cycle, Gogol sympathizes with the "little man" and bitterly discovers the absurdity of his contemporary life. In "The Overcoat," the poor clerk Akaky Bashmachkin, along with the clothes he had saved for so long, loses the meaning of life. In "Notes of a Madman," his colleague Aksenty Poprishchin, in search of his true calling, gradually loses his sanity. In "Nevsky Prospect," St. Petersburg's main street seems alive, concealing the true nature of some people and threatening tragedy for others. In "The Nose," a part of the careerist Kovalev's face takes on a life of its own, even assuming a higher rank. In "The Portrait," a mysterious painting robs the young artist Chartkov of his talent. And in "The Carriage," the landowner Pythagoras Chertokutsky decides to sell his carriage to the general, to his own detriment.
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