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The Inspector- General (Worldwide Classics)

The Inspector- General (Worldwide Classics)

Gogol, Nikolai

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Fiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 1725946440
ISBN13: 9781725946446
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Aug 27 2018
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.35 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
The Government Inspector, also known as The Inspector General, is a satirical play by the Russian and Ukrainian dramatist and novelist Nikolai Gogol. Originally published in 1836, the play was revised for an 1842 edition. Based upon an anecdote allegedly recounted to Gogol by Pushkin, the play is a comedy of errors, satirizing human greed, stupidity, and the extensive political corruption of Imperial Russia. According to D. S. Mirsky, the play is not only supreme in character and dialogue - it is one of the few Russian plays constructed with unerring art from beginning to end. The great originality of its plan consisted in the absence of all love interest and of sympathetic characters. The latter feature was deeply resented by Gogol's enemies, and as a satire the play gained immensely from it. There is not a wrong word or intonation from beginning to end, and the comic tension is of a quality that even Gogol did not always have at his beck and call.

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