El Vuu

by Nikolai Gogol, Miquel Cabal Guarro (Translator)

128 pages, Paperback

Published September 9, 2026

About the author

People consider that Russian writer Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (Николай Васильевич Гоголь) founded realism in Russian literature. His works include The Overcoat (1842) and Dead Souls (1842).

Ukrainian birth, heritage, and upbringing of Gogol influenced many of his written works among the most beloved in the tradition of Russian-language literature. Most critics see Gogol as the first Russian realist. His biting satire, comic realism, and descriptions of Russian provincials and petty bureaucrats influenced later Russian masters Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, and especially Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Gogol wittily said many later Russian maxims.

Gogol first used the techniques of surrealism and the grotesque in his works The Nose , Viy , The Overcoat , and Nevsky Prospekt . Ukrainian upbringing, culture, and folklore influenced his early works, such as Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka .
His later writing satirized political corruption in the Russian empire in Dead Souls .

Reviews

[Lídia]

m’ha fet riure en veu alta al tren en alguna ocasió (i mira que no hi havia cap motiu per riure, en aquest trajecte infernal), però no ha estat el meu gógol preferit! això sí, està molt bé i és magnífic que cal carré ens porti llibrets tan fantàstics en aquest format de butxaca (literal) (i quin tros de traducció🥵)

[Àlex]

Combinar humor i terror té mèrit. I també hi ha algun comentari misògin, ja se sap que invocar bruixes és l’excusa per deixar a caldo algunes dones, oi, Gógol?