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Centering on the picaresque realism of Nikolai Gogol’s (1809-1852) mid-19th-century visions of the extraordinary in everyday life, this collection mines the ambiance and mind of pre-Revolutionary Russia. These seven stories take us from the Miracle Mile of St. Petersburg’s Nevsky Prospekt, and a summer night in a Ukrainian village, to the fantastical psychological geographies of fathers, sons, and madmen. Augmenting Gogol’s visions are two disturbing tales by the foremost storyteller of Russia’s “Silver Age”.

This audiobook contains two of Tolstoy's most celebrated stories. "The Diary of a Madman" and "The Devil" are partially autobiographical. Both involve journeys of self-discovery and the moral and religious questioning that are also themes of Tolstoy's works of criticism and philosophy.

This collection of two classics by the great Russian writer Nikolay Gogol (1809-1852) includes two listener favorites. The first is his farcical story "Diary of a Madman", one of the master's most anthologized works. The second is his "The Portrait" which whimsically interweaves fiction with reality.

Aksentei es un oficinista para el gobierno que lleva un diario. En este, el personaje, al principio solo cuenta cosas rutinarias de su vida en el trabajo. Lo más inquietante es que siempre escribe como al llegar a casa, duerme por una enorme cantidad de tiempo. Pero todo comienza a cambiar al aparecer signos de locura en Aksentei al escuchar perros que hablan, fechas incongruentes hasta un paulatino descenso a su locura. El Diario de un Loco tiene un importante significado no solo literario sino en el ámbito del estudio de la mente humana.