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The Government Inspector
Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ
Gogol Three Plays
by Stephen Mulrine, Nikolai Gogol
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Synopsis
This collection contains Gogol's three completed plays The Government Inspector, which satirises a corrupt society was regarded by Nabokov as the greatest play in the Russian language and is still widely studied in schools and universities: "I resolved to gather into one heap everything that was bad in Russia which I was aware of at that time, all the injustices being perpetrated in those places, and in those circumstances that especially cried out for justice, and tried to hold them all up to ridicule, at one fell swoop."
(Nikolai Gogol) Marriage is a comedy about the business of matchmaking and matrimony; The Gamblers is an exoriating piece about the excesses of the Moscow aristocracy.
"Two and two make five, if not the square root of five, and it all happens quite naturally in Gogol's world...
Gogol was a strange creature, but then genius is always strange" (Vladimir Nabokov)
Publication
Publisher Methuen
Year 2000
Binding Paperback
Pages 252
Language English
ISBN-13 9780413733405
ISBN-10 0413733408
eISBN-13 9781408148617
LCC PG3458
Gogol Three Plays is a Russian play written by Stephen Mulrine and published by Methuen (2000).
Digital editions available on Amazon Kindle, Google Play (eISBN 9781408148617).
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