The Nose - Or the Comedy of Ghosts

Bedrettin Simsek

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The Nose, The Overcoat, The Carriage
Novelization of three short stories by Gogol.
With this work, Bedrettin Simsek has combined Gogol's stories "The Nose", "The Carriage" and "The Overcoat" into a single comic and fantastic novel, set these three stories in the period of the Russian Revolution of 1917, enriched them with scenes from Gogol's life, and mixed harsh reality with surrealism in a dreamlike fiction in the style of the famous film director David Lynch.

Disponibile da: 10/01/2024.

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