The World of Books

The Danish-Norwegian writer Ludvig Holberg, (born Bergen, Norway 1684, died Sorø, Denmark 1754) was a prolific and entertaining writer, famous mostly for his extremely amusing, divine comedies (Jeppe on the Hill and Erasmus Montanus are probably the best known). However, he also wrote a story that may be considered one of the first science fiction [...]

Dead Souls is a wonderful book, clearly one of the best in world literature (Dead Souls is ranked #21 in Leserglede’s ranking of the best books of all time). Whatever and whereever the soul may or may not be, however, is not the concern of Gogol. His concern, as I read it, is with satire, [...]