{"product_id":"gogols-disco-9781943150380","title":"Gogol's Disco","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMatsin, Paavo:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003ePaavo Matsin\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1970) began his literary career as a member of Estonia's 14NÜ experimental writing group. His novels include \u003ci\u003eDoctor Schwartz: The Twelve Keys to Alchemy\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Blue Guard\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eGogol's Disco\u003ci\u003e, a winner of the 2016 European Union Prize for Literature, is his third novel.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCullen, Adam:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eAdam Cullen\u003c\/b\u003e (b. 1986) is a translator of Estonian prose, poetry, and drama into English. His latest translations include \u003ci\u003eTõnu Õnnepalu's Exercises\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEno Raud's The Gothamites\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eKai Aareleid's Burning Cities\u003c\/i\u003e (long-listed for the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award). Originally from Minnesota, he has lived in Estonia for over a decade.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50494380048658,"sku":"9781943150380","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a5cbbe56-6814-4897-a96f-fd0ebf4538d6.jpg?v=1730663765","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/gogols-disco-9781943150380","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}