Discoteca De Gógol, La

Description: A dystopia between magical realism and the best Bulgakov tradition.

In a parallel and future universe, in Estonia the native language has been banned and the population has been deported after the invasion of the Russian tsar. Nikolai Gogol is resurrected and unleashes ghostly chaos in the until then 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 tsar's regime's secret police to arrest them and confine them to psychiatric hospitals.

Grotesque, erudite, 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 Gogol's 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.