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3.79 AVERAGE
3.79 AVERAGE
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
funny
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
4 stars because it is not finished and also because Pavel Ivanovici did not get his. He was a bitch till the end and he knows it.
Some parts of the second half were missing, but I think I got the main idea.
Gogol is like Caragiale, but more depressing and mental breakdown inducing, cuz he is russian.
All in all I liked the book, I enjoyed how almost all characters had their own way of speaking. Also, a lot of complex characters were created. I learned a lot about old russian mentality too and had a few good laughs.
Some pasages were really deep tho, Gogol did not have to hit this hard, but he did and God bless his russian heart.
Imma drink a shot of vodka in his honor, I think he would like that.
Also, it was quite clear to me that parts of this book were a love letter to Russia. The way the author describes the scenery and the customs really shows a lot of love from his side. In the rest of the book, he satirises the country.
F Pavel Ivanovici Cicikov!
Some parts of the second half were missing, but I think I got the main idea.
Gogol is like Caragiale, but more depressing and mental breakdown inducing, cuz he is russian.
All in all I liked the book, I enjoyed how almost all characters had their own way of speaking. Also, a lot of complex characters were created. I learned a lot about old russian mentality too and had a few good laughs.
Some pasages were really deep tho, Gogol did not have to hit this hard, but he did and God bless his russian heart.
Imma drink a shot of vodka in his honor, I think he would like that.
Also, it was quite clear to me that parts of this book were a love letter to Russia. The way the author describes the scenery and the customs really shows a lot of love from his side. In the rest of the book, he satirises the country.
F Pavel Ivanovici Cicikov!
Too bad Gogol destroyed the second half before he died... silly Gogol.
oh wow
such Russia
so bureaucracy
money is evrything
Sobakevich is bear
such Russia
so bureaucracy
money is evrything
Sobakevich is bear
Would probly have 5 stars but neebody told me he never finished it so it just cuts off at the end of part 2, I would muchly like to know how it was going to end
adventurous
funny
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Easily could of been a 5 .... If it was actually finished.. sadly Gogol burned the rest!!
I loved the sarcastic humour of Gogol. The people the crook Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov meet are still very much the kind of people you still meet today. I felt the narrative comments fun and like Gogol was talking to me personally. By the end I feel like I had a strange parasocial relationship with a Ukrainian Author from 200 years ago.
Sadly though Part 2 is really all over the place, it's clear it wasn't finished. And the concluded chapters just end in the middle of speech.
I did find it hard to get going too. Not because it was boring. But because it's a novel from 200 years ago and it took a while to get used to the style. I did end up listening to the audiobook most of the time, which I thoroughly enjoyed, even if the speaker gave the russian muzhiks cockney accents innit.
I loved the sarcastic humour of Gogol. The people the crook Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov meet are still very much the kind of people you still meet today. I felt the narrative comments fun and like Gogol was talking to me personally. By the end I feel like I had a strange parasocial relationship with a Ukrainian Author from 200 years ago.
Sadly though Part 2 is really all over the place, it's clear it wasn't finished. And the concluded chapters just end in the middle of speech.
I did find it hard to get going too. Not because it was boring. But because it's a novel from 200 years ago and it took a while to get used to the style. I did end up listening to the audiobook most of the time, which I thoroughly enjoyed, even if the speaker gave the russian muzhiks cockney accents innit.
informative
reflective
slow-paced
I heard this described as “the Russian Nicholas Nickleby” but to me that’s inaccurate, it’s the Russian Pickwick Papers if anything, but not nearly as refined. Very funny in places, but it has strange narrative quirks which seem to echo Don Quixote, parts of the manuscript missing, and so forth. But it has not the charm of either Dickens or Cervantes.
I usually brace myself for a descent into madness and mania that so often occurs in Russian literature, and there are certainly plenty of eccentrics in this novel. But apparently the author, Gogol went mad from trying to perfectly encapsulate the Russian character in his novels.
Somewhat enjoyable, but not for me a great work. 5/10
I usually brace myself for a descent into madness and mania that so often occurs in Russian literature, and there are certainly plenty of eccentrics in this novel. But apparently the author, Gogol went mad from trying to perfectly encapsulate the Russian character in his novels.
Somewhat enjoyable, but not for me a great work. 5/10