La discoteca de Gógol

A dystopia between magical realism and the best tradition of Bulgakov. In a parallel and future universe, Estonia has banned the native language and the population has been deported after the invasion of the Russian Tsar. Nikolai Gogol is resurrected and unleashes ghostly chaos in the hitherto subjugated village of Viljandi. A parade of bohemians, booksellers, beatniks and followers of the messiah Gogol try to write new gospels despite the efforts of the secret police of the tsar's regime to arrest them and put them in psychiatric hospitals. Grotesque, scholarly, psychedelic, hilarious and dreamlike, this is the parable of a small nation condemned by its giant neighbor to die in the gutter of history. But the Gogol apocalypse has only just begun. In Gogol's Disco, Matsin mixes literature, history and dystopia to offer a reflection on the fit of nationalities, languages, identities and the past in the kaleidoscope that is Europe.