A review by atelierofbooks
The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol

4.0

Another thoughtful (and very satisfying) story from Gogol, who is so skilled at combining the mundane and the absurd to shine a light on the casual cruelty of the bureaucracy, which is almost farcical in its self-importance and ineptitude. I think what I increasingly appreciate about Gogol is that the tragedy is never the end point, there's always a thread of compassion for the maligned and a whiff of justice at the end.