[nickcarraway]

Yes, Gogol is even better. The Nose is great, but The Overcoat is the most influential story in all of Russian literature. Dead Souls may be funniest book you will ever read.

[Army Air Corps]

Good to know.

[vladimir998]

“Yes, Gogol is even better. The Nose is great, but The Overcoat is the most influential story in all of Russian literature. Dead Souls may be funniest book you will ever read.”

Yes, to all three! I grow sad when I think that Gogol burned the manuscript of volume 2 of Dead Souls when he was dying. What a tragedy. He was great at showing the absurdity of bureaucracy.