A review by jayrothermel
St. John's Eve by Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol, Fiction, Classics, Literary by Nikolai Gogol

5.0

After his deal with the devil, committed on St. John's Eve, Petró cannot remember the frame he committed to to seal the deal and earn his bags of gold.

A year later, on the next St. John's Eve, Petró's memory returns. Shattering.

Gogol gives us village superstition, witches in their huts, Satan the tempter, and young love thwarted: all the caltrops of folklore in one bitter cup.