Diary of a Madman

Overcoat, “Nose”, “Portrait” and other “St. Petersburg Tales” by Gogol still amaze the reader with their diversity. Realism in them is closely intertwined with science fiction, tragedy - with mischievous humor. Reading and re -reading them, we involuntarily compassion for the miserable official Akakiya Akakievich, with enthusiasm for following the phantasmagoric adventures of his own life, the nose that escaped from the owner, experiencing the tragedy of the artist who was deceived in his “genius of pure beauty” - and again and again we discover the relevance of the relevance Gogol, like no one who knew how to see the eternal and great for the private and small.