![]() ![]() The plot of The Overcoat was already stirring in his mind. To the amazement of the whole company, Gogol lowered his head, looking sad and dejected he felt pity for the poor civil servant. The story made everybody laugh, everybody, that is, except Gogol. ![]() "The subject of The Overcoat was suggested to Gogol at a tea party in Petersburg. But there is infinite pathos and richness of imagination in the telling." -Wilson's Ficiton Catalog ![]() His ghost haunted the neighborhood that had known him and stripped overcoats from the shoulders of passersby. He had owned it but a day when it was stolen from him, and within a few days more he had died from exposure. "The overcoat belonged to Akaky Akayevitch, a poor government clerk whom it had cost a good part of his yearly salary and untold privations to buy. Franz Kafka is said to have drawn the inspiration for his Metamorphosis from this disconcerting tale. In addition to "The Overcoat," this collection contains the story "The Nose," the hilarious and disturbing tale of a socially ambitious man who awakes one morning to find that his nose is missing. ![]() It has often been cited as the cornerstone of the Russian realistic school of fiction - as evidenced by Dostoyevsky's famous statement "We all come out from under Gogol's Overcoat." Nicolai Gogol's short story "The Overcoat" had an immediate and profound effect on Russian literature when it was published in 1842. ![]()
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