SINOPSIS DEL LIBRO

A retired civil servant lives in a corner of Petersburg and spends forty pages telling the reader why every comfortable idea about reason and progress is a lie before he consents to tell a story at all The story when it comes is worse than the argument The Gilded Library edition places paintings of snowbound Petersburg and solitary lamplit rooms beside the text with ornament of candlestick inkwell and a street lamp under snow...Seguir leyendo