Записки сумасшедшего - Bir Delinin Günlüğü

"Shinel'", "Nos", "Portret" i drugiye "Peterburgskiye povesti" Gogolya do sikh por porazhayut chitatelya svoim raznoobraziyem. Realizm v nikh tesno perepletayetsya s fantastikoy, tragizm – s ozornym yumorom. Chitaya i perechityvaya ikh, my nevol'no sostradayem zhalkomu chinovniku Akakiyu Akakiyevichu, s uvlecheniyem sledim za fantasmagoricheskimi priklyucheniyami zazhivshego sobstvennoy zhizn'yu nosa, sbezhavshego ot khozyaina, perezhivayem tragediyu khudozhnika, obmanuvshegosya v svoyem "genii chistoy krasoty", – i snova i snova otkryvayem dlya sebya aktual'nost' Gogolya, kak nikto umevshego za chastnym i melkim uvidet' vechnoye i velikoye.