Summary of Gogol’s Disco
“Gogol’s Disco” is a magic-realistic novel set in an imagined future Estonia, where the population has been deported and replaced by settlers following an invasion by the Russian Empire. The famous 19th-century Russian writer Nikolai Gogol is resurrected as a messianic, Christ-like figure, and brings mayhem to the settlers who live in the town of Viljandi.
Reasons to read Gogol’s DiscoÂ
“Gogol’s Disco” is a grotesque, surreal, and almost mystical parable about a small country (Estonia) under threat of a much more powerful neighbouring country (Russia). The novel won the EU Prize for Literature in 2016. Paavo Matsin – pen name Pasha Matšinov – was the city writer of Tartu in 2022.
Setting: Viljandi (Estonia)
Original title: Gogoli Disko
Year of publication: 2015
Nr of pages: 180
