The editors of Polkka are sorting it out 210 years since the birth of the great author . Gogol's works have been perceived over the past 150 years in completely different ways.
Gogol propagandizes al dente pasta and makes Sobakevich eat a side of lamb . Tolstoy sorts things out with the world with the help of vegetarianism . Sorokin serves a salad from women's gloves to the table .
The history of world literature could be richer if it were not for the destruction of the Library of Alexandria, the eruption of Vesuvius, tsarist censorship, Gogol's insanity, and searches by the NKVD . In this issue, the editors of Shelf discuss literature lost forever and miraculously returned .