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The Inspector-General: A Comedy in Five Acts

The Inspector-General: A Comedy in Five Acts

Seltzer, Thomas
Gogol, Nikolai Vasil'evich

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ISBN10: 1726204065
ISBN13: 9781726204064
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Aug 26 2018
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.17 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
The Inspector-General: The Government Inspector: A Comedy in Five Acts by Nicolay Gogol. Translated by Thomas Seltzer from the Russian. 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. The Inspector-General is a national institution. To place a purely literary valuation upon it and call it the greatest of Russian comedies would not convey the significance of its position either in Russian literature or in Russian life itself. There is no other single work in the modern literature of any language that carries with it the wealth of associations which the Inspector-General does to the educated Russian. The Germans have their Faust; but Faust is a tragedy with a cosmic philosophic theme. In England it takes nearly all that is implied in the comprehensive name of Shakespeare to give the same sense of bigness that a Russian gets from the mention of the Revizor.

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