The Overcoat
admin_omar2020-07-12T00:00:00+00:00"We all came out of Gogol's 'Overcoat'," the most famous apocryphal saying of Russian literature, is sometimes attributed to Dostoyevsky or to Turgenev. The Overcoat is a short story by the Russian author Nikolai Gogol, translated by Samer Samir Karrum and published by the Al-Kamel Publishing House (Cologne: 2017). The story and its author have had great influence on Russian literature. It is the greatest Russian short story ever written. The story narrates the life and death of Akaky, an impoverished government clerk and copyist in the Russian capital. He is dedicated to his job, though little recognized in his department [Read More]