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Pushkin's Earliest Stories Have This Air of Absurdity About Them Too
Pushkin tried to help gogel get the job at the university of kiv. The russian minister of education was in favor as well. And yet, that position for gogel was blocked by a bureaucrat within the university system. Gogel had to leave to find work elsewhere. His view of the world of bureaucracy is one of arbitrary decisions leading to absurd results.
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