The Madman’s Coat: Exploring Nikolai Gogol’s Literary Legacy and his Dazzling Bungou Stray Dogs Incarnation
The image is arresting: a figure draped in flamboyant, almost clownish attire, a wide, unsettling smile playing on his lips. It’s Nikolai Gogol, not the somber, troubled Russian author of legend, but his incarnation from the wildly popular anime and manga series, Bungou Stray Dogs. The real Nikolai Gogol, writing in nineteenth-century Russia, gifted the…
