Le journal d’un fou

This extravagant love will plunge him into a madness with fantastical and sinister overtones. In the excess of his character, he is the legitimate King of Spain, Ferdinand VIII. From the intimacy of his maid's room to the anonymity of Nevsky Prospect, from the staid atmosphere of the ministry to the organized chaos of a madhouse, Gogol takes us on a journey to meet a gallery of humble and fantastical characters.

Entering the extraordinary intimacy of an ordinary man, the petty rubs shoulders with the celestial, the darkest suffering rubs shoulders with the purest joy. Proprichtin is funny, violent, touching, unbearable, and profoundly human.

Gogol's work is ambiguous and complex. A humorous tone is widely present. By grafting the fantastic onto reality, the author of Black Souls surprises us by embracing the improbable.