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Downloaded ‘The Overcoat’ to better understand Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘The Namesake’, and discovered several other brilliant stories in the process.
The Overcoat is my favorite story by Gogol. He writes in the absurd genre so sometimes it seems weird, but he also draws out human emotions to make his characters seem so real and makes such great commentary on life that he makes me want to read and re-read his books. There is a paragraph that talks about how all the people in Akaky’s (yep, that’s his name!) office mock him that stands out as one those passages that sticks with a person for the rest of their life:
“Only when the jokes were too un
“The Overcoat,” “The Nose,” and “The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich” are all about the most bland and/or odd subjects: a guy gets a new coat, someone’s nose runs away, two guys become enemies over a silly insult. The fact that each story managed to keep me reading and chuckling until the end speaks to Gogol’s quality as an author. It isn’t what he writes about; it is how he writes that is so pleasing. Everything I have read by him is relayed through a tongue-in-cheek
My favorite lines:
“All at once Ivan Ivanovich uttered an exclamation, and became petrified with fear: a dead man appeared to him; but he speedily recovered himself on perceiving that it was a goose , thrusting its neck out at him.”
“Whichever way you look at it, this is an impossible occurrence. After all, bread is something baked, and a nose is something altogether different.”
“His name was Akakii Akakievich. It may strike the reader as rather singular and far-fetched; but he may feel assured that it was by no means far-fetched, and that the circumstances were such that it would have been impossible to give him any other name; and this is how it came about.”