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    <body><![CDATA[ نيکلای گوگول نويسنده نو گرا و صاحب سبكي است او با به تصوير كشيدن زندگي مردم روسيه از همه طبقات جامعه با زباني  طنزآميز و گاه غم آلود اما شيرين ، راهي را آغاز كرد كه نوي...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8222156">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd never read any Gogol. None of the &quot;classic&quot; short stories. To be honest, I was a bit disappointed in the short stories. Sure, they depicted the absurdities of Russian bureaucracy, the  rituals of their pseudo-caste system, but I found myself wanting more depth. The veneer was great, bu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24967340">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gogols absurdist tendency runs rampent in this collection of short stories, from The Diary, which has a man talking to dogs and obsessing over letters the dogs wrote to each other. To the good old... ghost story?, &quot;The Overcoat&quot;. I feel though that the story of &quot;Taras Bulba&quot; is a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16174717">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The Nose&quot; blows and so does Gogol.  I really don't think he is funny like a lot of people do.  I read this during my &quot;Tsarist&quot; phase back in 98-99 and was reminded of it last week when I couldn't find my winter coat.  Of course, it was 80 yesterday - WTF?  Anyway, I lived with a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10263733">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A complete delight to read. I thoroughly enjoyed the dark humour, the bumbling Russian departments, the surreal circumstances, and the portrait of the poor in this short story collection. I would have to say my favorite story is &quot;Diary of a Madman.&quot; I will be recommending this to my friend...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;the overcoat&quot;, which i loved the most,in its plot line is simple and reminded me &quot;notes from underground&quot;, that I read before.<br/>anyway, I don't know the reason why but before reading another russian author, I have to take a breath.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Diary of a madman is funny. Funny in a trite way, but yet I laughed at it. The plot is related to us through the eyes of a lunatic. And it gives this piece its brilliance.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved the first four stories. They're both absurdist and absurd, and Gogol isn't afraid to kick his protagonists when they're down (repeatedly). As for Taras Bulba, the novella (?) comprising the last half of the book...eh. I get the dying for Mother Russia/camaraderie/blah de blah...but...eh. I fee...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76458506">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This isn't the edition I read but whatever. It's excellent short stories by Gogol! The Nose and The Overcoat especially stand out after all these years.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Overcoat and The Nose are two of my very, very favorite stories ever.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[این قصه  یک بار در 1329 همراه با شنل و دماغ، توسط مصطفی فرزانه ترجمه م منتشر شده است و بار دیگر، تا آنجا که من اطلاع دارم، در مجموعه ای به همین نام، همراه شش قصه ی دیگر از ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7925520">more...</a>]]></body>
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