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This book is a collection of 5 stories by Nikolai Gogol including: The Mantle, The Nose, Memoirs of a Madman, A May Night, and VIY. It is available in the public domain - Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/36238/...

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Sep 15, 2007 Joe rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended by Goodreader and Trotskyite Brian T., The Overcoat is an interesting collection of six short stories by Nicolai Golgol. Several of his tales explore evil as an an abstraction: in The Terrible Vengeance , a girl finds out her father is in fact the devil himself, in The Portrait, evil somehow takes up residence in a scary picture. The remaining stories are comic and absurd. The Nose begins with a barber finding a completely intact human nose baked into a loaf of bread. The rest of the...more

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Dec 02, 2007 Danny rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Gogol set the bar by which all other Russian authors of his day were judged. His writing style is unorthodox by today's standards. The deliberate unfinished feel of 'Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt' is a perfect example. But unorthodox as Gogol can be, his writing is thoroughly charming, and a very rewarding read in my opinion, even if the translation of this edition does (as some of the other reviews here suggest) leave something to be desired.

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Dec 08, 2008 Alan rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Gogol, who lived from 1809-1852, was decades if not a whole century ahead of his time. His clever, sardonic, cynical stories satirize the world of self-important bureaucrats in ways that still seem eerily relevant.
In "The Overcoat," a humble clerk who spends his days copying documents, is shaken out of his routine when he suddenly acquires a splendid new coat. Suddenly, all his repressed desires come to the surface. I won't reveal the end of the story except to say that it is both funny and sad...more

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Mar 03, 2008 Shama rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

My god, what a nut-job! Gogol was a crazy, religious, depressed, repressed lunatic, but my gum, could he write. The stories in this collection ranged from Gothic to comedic with tidbits of the fantastic and macabre. I loved the progression of the stories as much as I loved the stories themselves. The book is put together quite well, and readers shouldn't have trouble shifting their perspectives from Gogol's major themes: religion, piety, women, money, family, magic, society and circumstance. Oh,...more

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Jan 12, 2013 CJ rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A fantastic piece of literature.

Nikolai was a wonder and this was the first work by him that I had read. He seems to delve in satire, surrealism, and just craft well-made, fun stories.

"Old-Fashioned Farmers" stars a bickering couple who seem to enjoy ribbing and poking fun at each other until a small event leads to tragic consequences.

"The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich" is about two similarly named once called friends who only relate in their feud with each other a...more

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Apr 16, 2012 Germano Dalcielo rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Il cappotto:
Protagonista un impiegatuccio che non è mai riuscito ad affermarsi e anzi, viene preso di mira a suon di sberleffi dai colleghi, ma troverà il suo alter ego (meglio di una moglie!) in un cappotto costatogli caro (digiuni e ristrettezze) di cui si servirà post mortem per vendicarsi di tutti i torti subiti.
Consigliatissimo, sono 30 paginette divorabili e decisamente piacevoli. La scrittura è molto semplice, scorre via liscia e l'empatia col Akakij Akakievic è d'obbligo

Il naso:
è il racc...more

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Jun 30, 2010 Rachel Mecham rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The Overcoat is my favorite story by Gogol. He writes in the absurd genre so sometimes it seems weird, but he also draws out human emotions to make his characters seem so real and makes such great commentary on life that he makes me want to read and re-read his books. There is a paragraph that talks about how all the people in Akaky's (yep, that's his name!) office mock him that stands out as one those passages that sticks with a person for the rest of their life:

"Only when the jokes were too un...more

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Jul 01, 2010 Adam Floridia rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

"The Overcoat," "The Nose," and "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich" are all about the most bland and/or odd subjects: a guy gets a new coat, someone's nose runs away, two guys become enemies over a silly insult. The fact that each story managed to keep me reading and chuckling until the end speaks to Gogol's quality as an author. It isn't what he writes about; it is how he writes that is so pleasing. Everything I have read by him is relayed through a tongue-in-cheek...more

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Jun 25, 2009 Lindsay rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

"Many of us have come from underneath 'The Overcoat'," recalled Dostoevsky. Upon reading this quote, I immediately turned to Gogol, if only to see Dostoevsky in a greater contextual light. However, I found this story to be intriguing, an object of fond warmth. Darkly humorous, slightly peculiar, and courageous in the pluck of its time, what I learned from the novel was this:
It did not have to do, necessarily, with the moral or objective of such a story, but with the understanding of how to metab...more

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May 18, 2013 JP rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

If subsequent Russian greats claimed to have built on Gogol, I find that they did indeed progress beyond him. The 4 stories in this collection hold the readers interest and they seem consistently tight, but Ivan Ivanovich is no Ivan Ilyich. The Overcoat, the title work for this collection was the best of the 4. Character development was perfect and the ending intriguing. Two of the oother stories were entertaining, though anti-climactic. The Nose was a complete disappointment. The quality of wri...more

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Jul 21, 2009 RK Byers rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

"Nevsky Street" and "The Portrait" TOTALLY carried this book. "The Overcoat" was only ok.

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Sep 17, 2010 Chuddchutney Buana rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Wandering around through pages of The Overcoat is simply not an easy task. The language that Gogol use is just so old school literature, very hard to chew every words. That's why it took more than a month for me to finish this book ( While the pages are quite thin, only lingering about no more than 200 pages). But, this is a kind of book, that while you might not enjoyed reading it, but the impact resides in you long after you read it. The short stories that Gogol told, either it's the mistifyin...more

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Feb 21, 2012 Danns rated it 4 of 5 stars

What an odd collection of stories: A officer who overwhelming concern for a new cloak captures his complete attention and serves as his ruin spins off into the supernatural; a man's nose turns up in a pastry then completes a trek as an officer whom he chases all the while worrying over his appearance; another "official" slowly disappears down the halls of insanity, talking to dogs, obsessing over a beauty and finally discovering he is the king of Spain; and two fairy tales which on one hand seem...more What an odd collection of stories: A officer who overwhelming concern for a new cloak captures his complete attention and serves as his ruin spins off into the supernatural; a man's nose turns up in a pastry then completes a trek as an officer whom he chases all the while worrying over his appearance; another "official" slowly disappears down the halls of insanity, talking to dogs, obsessing over a beauty and finally discovering he is the king of Spain; and two fairy tales which on one hand seem a bit out of place but on the other, seem to fit perfectly. A Cossack who strives to win the heart and had of the village beauty but is thwarted by his father the headman who excessively touts his one time life changing event of assisting the Czar. His mechanitions to despoil his father's reputation collide head long with an old ghost story. Finally, a haunting tale of Gnomes and wandering scholars, a witch and the rising of the dead.

The first three stories often bordered on the absurd and at times winded down avenues of interest only to meet and abrupt end and take up on another street. Gogol infatuation with Russian bureaucracy is astutely flushed out and quite jarring. My interest is piqued in this period of government and it's minutia in daily life.

What seems to be the main recommendation in this collection is the Nose. While this story is great, I was left wondering if there was some satire I had not understood. The Mantle and Memoirs of a Madman hit home the effects the Russian life of a middling bureaucrat could result in. The single quest of the Mantle's protagonist to purchase a replacement cloak at first seemed quite obsessive yet eye opening. Life in today's United States where simple goods are purchased without a second thought is a drastic cry from the strife this poor man had to go through just to replace his word mantle. Very eye opening it was.

The last two Ukranian fairy tales could easy be said to be the jems of this collection, but I have a hard time selling the remaining three stories short, they are treasures in themselves for different reasons. There is some of Gogol's depictions of bureaucracy but these are rooted more in the traditional fairy tale settings. For that alone this collection is highly recommended. (less)

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Sep 27, 2011 Hansen Wendlandt rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The later two stories in this collection are the deeper, better written, more interesting narratives. The Overcoat is the jewel, describing the sad plight of a middle manager with lofty taste, or exactly the population of America's disenfranchised middle class. The central character, Akakii, is at once lovable, but turns pathetic and even disgusting to the reader. Gogol has little need here to use satire or comedy--it's just a good story, with message, well written. The Nose fits well with the p...more

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Jun 18, 2011 will rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

With the first couple stories I was a bit skeptical, but this collection really sold me on Gogol being one of the first great, russian modern writers. Though some refer to Gogol as one of the first realists, he certainly isn't a realist in the way Dostoyevsky was. He is might be considered a realist in the sense that his stories do not follow any traditional arc (though they all share a similar plot arc as each other), and because of his tendency to kill off protagonists.

To be honest I was somew...more

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Jan 15, 2011 Emily rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I started this book and then read Troung's book somewhere in the middle and then came back to finish the rest of the short stories. As such, I starkly saw the difference between what Foucault said characterized the difference between recent novels vs past novels. Recent novels read more as memoirs, biographies, or confessionals. Whereas with Gogol's short stories, especially with "The Portrait," questions about how to make sure that I am a good person, that I lead a meaningful, purposeful and al...more

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Feb 04, 2010 Tyler Jones rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: books-that-changed-my-life, russian-literature, short-stories

Warning: this is less a book review than an attempt to explain how the stories of Gogol changed my life in a small but important way. If you don't like it when people write about themselves instead of the book they are supposed to be reviewing, then just skip this.

Back in my university days there was no such thing as a comparative literature courses offered - if you wanted to study Russian Literature, you had to take a class from the languages department. Academia's insistence on compartmentaliz...more Warning: this is less a book review than an attempt to explain how the stories of Gogol changed my life in a small but important way. If you don't like it when people write about themselves instead of the book they are supposed to be reviewing, then just skip this.

Back in my university days there was no such thing as a comparative literature courses offered - if you wanted to study Russian Literature, you had to take a class from the languages department. Academia's insistence on compartmentalizing literature into mother tongues even then struck me as stultifying. I hope things have improved. Anyway, my interest in fiction was not restricted to English fiction, so I eagerly took the one class in Russian literature my University offered.

I do not remember the professors name but only that it, and he himself, was short and sounded funny. A girl in the class said his name translated into "big oaf" in English, and "Balbes" does sound rather close to what I remember. He had a high pitched voice and was almost always excited about whatever he was talking about. While I admired my professor's passion, I just didn't connect with the high-flung romantic passion of Pushkin or the too-cool disaffection of Lermontov. Then we spent a class on the short stories of Gogol and I knew I had discovered one of my Gods. After that class I devoured all his stories I could find.

Gogol wrote about a world that was unbearably cruel and absurd, yet his humour was unflagging even as his outlook was dark. More importantly, he may have been the first modern author in the sense that he wrote in a style that we today would call magic realism. His refusal to write in the ornately realistic style of his day was ground-breaking. But most important to me, Gogol represents a philosophy. He is concerned with the well-being of the marginalized (in a sense, he is one of the first writers to try to use fiction as a tool to raise social consciousness) and his deep humanism struck me as a vital thing I should strive to emulate.

That I have often slipped, and felt hatred toward my fellow man, is my own sin. When I repent, I pray to Gogol and I am forgiven.

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Feb 11, 2010 Charity rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Charity by: The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

Shelves: 1001books, russia, stories-essays, faves

4.5 Stars

Stories include:
- Old-Fashioned Farmers (aka The Old-World Landowners): Very, very touching story of love and loneliness...or, at least, I think so. 4 stars

- The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich: What happens when hurt-feelings, pride, and nonsense mess with a life-long friendship...hilarity, that's what! (Note to self: Refrain from using the word goose. Not safe in all company.) Very, very good story. Although, it really reminded me of something I might have...more

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Oct 25, 2008 Michael rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Thank you for paying no mind to the dolts who say The Overcoat is "kind of weird" or "not Gogol's best work." I actually read that. In some of the reviews on this site. Villains! Rakes! Of course the stories in this collection are weird And not only is The Overcoat his best work--we're talking short stories here, right?--it's the best story ever written. If you disagree, then please enjoy being wrong.

Dig.

Dostoyevski said, "We all come from under The Overcoat." How should I know what he meant by...more

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Mar 07, 2008 David rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: read-in-2008, disappointing

The four stories in this slim volume may indeed be 'masterpieces of the form', but they left me as cold as Akakii Akakievich, the unfortunate protagonist of the title story. Gogol has a fine time skewering petty bureaucrats of every stripe, but after a couple of pages it gets old, frankly. Perhaps if I had a better understanding of the relative ranks of a collegiate assessor, a procurement officer, a major, a senate chief clerk, a field officer, a state councillor, a police inspector, and a dist...more

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May 25, 2011 Nikki rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 19th-century, classics, read-in-2011, russian

Really great collection of stories. My personal favourite was "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich", which was absolutely hilarious. All the stories are permeated with a royal dose of irony and absurdism, but this one took the cake. "The Overcoat" and "Old-Fashioned Farmers" are heart-breaking though. Even though you only spend a couple dozen of pages with these characters, you feel so sorry for them and wish their lives hadn't been so tragic.

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Jan 03, 2013 Meredith Walker rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Gogol’s irreverent, unorthodox style is very Kafkaesque. Simple plots, pitiful heros and charming, poetic descriptive moments show what Dostoyevsky meant by “we all come out of Gogol’s overcoat;” our true selves are deep inside and that sometimes we just need an overcoat to make us feel confident enough to become who we truly want to be. The stories are about the simplest of subjects yet are engaging, enjoyable and rewarding, such is Gogol’s enduring quality.

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Aug 26, 2011 Samantha rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Akaky Akakievich! I wrote a paper on this junior year of high school, and it served as my introduction to Russian literature (only about 2 weeks before I read Crime and Punishment). Gogol is a master of the short story, and I was blown away by the quiet desperation of Akaky. It was while reading this that I fully started to realize what the short story can do, and I have to say it's one of the reasons why I'm an English major.

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Dec 10, 2012 StrangeBedfellows rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I was dubious when first assigned to read this, but I learned to enjoy Gogol's work. His stories are fun, often funny, and whimsical without being frivolous. Through Gogol I developed a better appreciation for Russian literature -- there's more to it than 'Crime and Punishment'. I rated this book at 2 stars, because some stories included were less enjoyable than others.

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Oct 31, 2011 Will rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I read this in keeping with my Halloween tradition of reading a "spooky" classic. All of the stories in this collection, The Mantle (or Overcoat or Cloak), The Nose, Memoirs of a Madman, A May Night, and Viy (King of the Gnomes) are really entertaining. All, except The Nose--which is snarky fun--involve ghosts, demons, witches, and insanity.
Available free at Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/files/36238/...
Well worth the read.

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Dec 10, 2011 Roshni rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: culture-history

Considering the rave reviews this book has, it is not as good as I expected. It is a look into the culture of Russia with seemingly simplistic stories that do have a cultural purpose. However, the author is not radical enough to make his point. For it to truly be a cultural commentary, the author must go to the extreme, and he does fail to do that.

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Feb 02, 2010 Maggie rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction

the overcoat is an amazing and perfect short story. it captures every possible frustration of the human condition which unjustly labors under the mindlessness of bureaucrats and self-centered ruling petite-bourgeoisie. pathos is legitimate in this non-sentimentl, straight-forward telling of the troubles an subsequent death of timid Akakie Akakievich.

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Apr 01, 2013 Jill rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: russian-lit

The Portrait was really great, but was suspiciously similar to Dorian Gray - meaning I strongly suspect that Wilde ripped off Gogol. The Nose was bizarre and reminded me a little of that French film, The Moustache. Some of the stories were somewhat dull, but I really think it's because Gogol's sentences average about seven paragraphs a piece. Really - it's exhausting! You get lost in between all the commas. I loved the originality, and there were pieces - certain phrases that were just perfectio...more

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Dec 14, 2008 Jeremy rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: russian-literature

Gogol is damn funny. He makes you feel sorry for his protagonist even as he makes fun of them. His work has this almost musical theatre sensibility to it which I just love. It all feels so much larger than life. Too bad he had a religious epiphany and had torched the second volume of Dead Souls before it could be published.

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Aug 26, 2008 Kek-w Kek-w rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Everybody

Recommended to Kek-w by: No one.

Gogol is really funny. Funny and surreal. "The Nose" rules. Fiercely.

There's a bit of vague musing on Gogol by me here: http://kidshirt.blogspot.com/2008/08/...

Gogolization. Or: Gogolisation if yr a Brit like me.

I love this quote from Tom Bradley on Wikipedia, who "traces the roots [of Bizarro] back in literary history to the time of Vladimir Nabokov's "Gogolization," and his cry of despair and horror at having his central nervous system colonized: "...after reading Gogol, one's eyes become gog...more

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About Nikolai Gogol

Gogol (Николай Николай Гоголь) was born in the Ukrainian Cossack village of Sorochyntsi, in Poltava Governorate of the Russian Empire, present-day Ukraine. His mother was a descendant of Polish nobility. His father Vasily Gogol-Yanovsky, a descendant of Ukrainian Cossacks, belonged to the petty gentry, wrote poetry in Russian and Ukrainian, and was an amateur Ukrainian-language playwright who died...more Gogol (Николай Николай Гоголь) was born in the Ukrainian Cossack village of Sorochyntsi, in Poltava Governorate of the Russian Empire, present-day Ukraine. His mother was a descendant of Polish nobility. His father Vasily Gogol-Yanovsky, a descendant of Ukrainian Cossacks, belonged to the petty gentry, wrote poetry in Russian and Ukrainian, and was an amateur Ukrainian-language playwright who died when Gogol was 15 years old.

In 1820 Gogol went to a school of higher art in Nizhyn and remained there until 1828. It was there that he began writing. Very early he developed a dark and secretive disposition, marked by a painful self-consciousness and boundless ambition. Equally early he developed an extraordinary talent for mimicry which later on made him a matchless reader of his own works.

In 1828, on leaving school, Gogol came to Petersburg. He had hoped for literary fame and brought with him a Romantic poem of German idyllic life – Ganz Küchelgarten. He had it published, at his own expense, under the name of "V. Alov." The magazines he sent it to almost universally derided it. He bought all the copies and destroyed them, swearing never to write poetry again.

Gogol was one of the first masters of the short story, alongside Alexander Pushkin, Prosper Mérimée, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. He was in touch with the "literary aristocracy", and was taken up by Vasily Zhukovsky and Pyotr Pletnyov, and (in 1831) was introduced to Pushkin.

In 1831, he brought out the first volume of his Ukrainian stories (Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka), which met with immediate success. He followed it in 1832 with a second volume, and in 1835 by two volumes of stories entitled Mirgorod, as well as by two volumes of miscellaneous prose entitled Arabesques. At this time, Gogol developed a passion for Ukrainian history and tried to obtain an appointment to the history department at Kiev University. His fictional story Taras Bulba, based on the history of Ukrainian cossacks, was the result of this phase in his interests.

Between 1832 and 1836 Gogol worked with great energy, though almost all his work has in one way or another its sources in his four years of contact with Pushkin. Only after the presentation, on 19 April 1836, of his comedy The Government Inspector (Revizor) that he finally came to believe in his literary vocation.

From 1836 to 1848 he lived abroad, travelling throughout Germany and Switzerland, as well as spending the winter of 1836–1837 in Paris.

Pushkin's death produced a strong impression on Gogol. His principal work during years following Pushkin's death was the satirical epic Dead Souls. Concurrently, he worked at other tasks – recast Taras Bulba and The Portrait, completed his second comedy, Marriage (Zhenitba), wrote the fragment Rome and his most famous short story, The Overcoat.

After the triumph of Dead Souls, Gogol came to be regarded as a great satirist who lampooned the unseemly sides of Imperial Russia. However, Dead Souls was but the first part of a counterpart to The Divine Comedy. The first part represented the Inferno; the second part was to depict the gradual purification and transformation of the rogue Chichikov under the influence of virtuous publicans and governors – Purgatory.

His last years were spent in restless movement throughout the country. He intensified his relationship with a church elder, Matvey Konstantinovsky. He seems to have strengthened in Gogol the fear of perdition by insisting on the sinfulness of all his imaginative work. His health was undermined by exaggerated ascetic practices and he fell into a state of deep depression. On the night of 24 February 1852, he burned some of his manuscripts, which contained most of the second part of Dead Souls. He explained this as a mistake, a practical joke played on him by the Devil. Soon thereafter he(less)

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