{"product_id":"gogols-disco-9781943150380","title":"Gogol's Disco","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Paavo Matsin\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn a parallel or future Estonia, whose language has been outlawed and its native population deported after the invasion by the Russian Tsardom, Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol is resurrected, Christ-like, bringing phantasmagoric mayhem to the sleepy town of Viljandi.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the end of the story, four evangelists will have emerged from the novel's ragtag cast of Russian- speaking beatniks, bohemians, booksellers, blaggers, and Beatles- maniacs to write their subversive Gogol Gospels in the local insane asylum, despite efforts to thwart them on the part of the mysterious Murka, heroine of a criminal underworld ballad and agent of the Tsardom's secret police. By turns exuberant, grotesque, erudite, oneiric, hilarious, mystical, psychedelic, and dystopian, \u003ci\u003eGogol's Disco\u003c\/i\u003e tells the parable of a small nation, whose gigantic neighbor quite literally consigns its literature to the latrine, only for it to rise from the dead in a literarily spectacular apocalypse in the best traditions of Bulgakov and magic realism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45128711504023,"sku":"9781943150380","price":807.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781943150380.webp?v=1767904466","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/gogols-disco-9781943150380","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}