nacholas’s Reviews > The Diary of a Madman, the Government Inspector, and Selected Stories > Status Update

20 pages of the introduction; pretty insightful as to how gogol operates best in short stories, but also sucks how he was so unsure whether they were good, that he even burnt a lot of his work away, short stories, plays and even the sequel to Dead Souls... i am endlessly fascinated by the minds of russian writers; given dostoyevsky's my fav, gogol won't disappoint