A review by missrerr
Plays and Petersburg Tales: Petersburg Tales; Marriage; The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol

5.0

Gogol's stories present a world that is just far too strange to make any sense of it (but you don't need necessarily need to, and I, for one, prefer it that way). The hilariously absurd characters and descriptions make for a laugh-out-loud read that will make you begin to wonder about the very world we ourselves know to be reality. Reading Gogol is pure pleasure, but at the same time so thought-provoking in terms of its underlying statements about perception and how much it relates to one's overall sense of existence in the world.