The Government Inspector - 9781530891207

Gogol's works constitute one of Russian literature's supreme achievements, yet the nature of their brilliant originality, comic genius, and complex workings is difficult to summarize precisely. The Government Inspector, a perennial favourite on stage and screen, is considered a national institution in Russia, and Gogol's stories present us with one of the most marvellous worlds a writer has ever created. His quirky characters - the lowly official who imagines himself to be the King of Spain, the man committed to chase his nose around St. Petersburg, a whole village paralyzed at the prospect of being visited by an authority from the capital - are immortal. Although Gogol's fiction was commandeered by Russia's progressive critics as the work of an important social commentator, he was in many ways an arch-conservative, and there is a madcap strain in it that makes him a precursor of Kafka and absurdist drama.

• | Author: Nikolai Gogol, Will Jonson
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Apr 20, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 78 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1530891205
• | ISBN-13: 9781530891207