Diary of a Madman

“Overcoat”, “Nose”, “Portrait” and other “Petersburg novels” by Gogol still amaze the reader with their diversity. Realism in them is closely intertwined with science fiction, tragedy with mischievous humor. Reading and re -reading them, we involuntarily compassion for the miserable official Akakiya Akakievich, with enthusiasm, we follow the phantasmagoric adventures of his own life, who escaped from the owner, experience the tragedy of the artist who was deceived in his “genius of pure beauty”, and again and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again, and again Gogol, like no one who knew how to see the eternal and great for the private and small