A review by velax1
Петербургские повести by Nikolai Gogol, Николай Гоголь

1.0

So my dislike for Gogol was not just a youthful ignorance - I do indeed not like his work. I'm always tempted to compare with Chekhov, my all time favourite when it comes to Russian classics, and Gogol's stories lose in every possible regard: less funny, less touching, less exact, less special. It might not be a fair comparison, given how Chekhov came so much later, but still: Gogol's stories are neither funny nor really tragic, but leave me somehow terribly indifferent. And what is worse than this?