Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol

The Inspector-General

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Produktbeschreibung

Gogol was a Ukrainian writer from the early 19th century. This satirical play was published in 1836. This comedy of errors portrays greed, stupidity and corruption in Tzarist Russia. The Inspector General is original in that it involves no sympathetic characters and no romance. The plot centers around a small town and its mayor. It is feared an inspector is in their midst incognito. There is much activity trying to cover up past misdeeds.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Book Jungle
• Seitenzahl: 104
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 191mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 212g
• ISBN-13: 9781605971889
• ISBN-10: 160597188X
• Artikelnr.: 23576210

Autorenporträt

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809 - 1852) was a Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist, novelist and short story writer whose work was strongly influenced by Ukrainian culture. Although Gogol was considered by his contemporaries one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary realism, later critics have found in his work a fundamentally romantic sensibility, with strains of surrealism and the grotesque ("The Nose", "Viy", "The Overcoat," "Nevsky Prospekt"). His early works, such as Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, were influenced by his Ukrainian upbringing, culture and folklore. His later writing satirized political corruption in the Russian Empire (The Government Inspector, Dead Souls). The novel Taras Bulba (1835) and the play Marriage (1842), along with the short stories "Diary of a Madman", "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich", "The Portrait" and "The Carriage", round out the tally of his best-known works.