{"product_id":"gogols-disco","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","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48841238282445,"sku":"9781943150380","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_a3ae1014-27b4-4515-bde5-2c9fc0849e12.jpg?v=1792025716","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/gogols-disco","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}