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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.

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Russian literature, so full of enigmas, contains no greater creative mystery than Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol (1809-1852), who has done for the Russian novel and Russian prose what Pushkin has done for Russian poetry. Before these two men came Russian literature can hardly have been said to exist. It was pompous and effete with pseudo-classicism, foreign influences were strong, in the speech of the upper circles there was an overfondness for Ger...

The First New Translation in Forty Years Set sometime between the mid-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century, Gogol's epic tale recounts both a bloody Cossack revolt against the Poles (led by the bold Taras Bulba of Ukrainian folk mythology) and the trials of Taras Bulba's two sons. As Robert Kaplan writes in his Introduction, "["Taras Bulba] has a Kiplingesque gusto . . . that makes it a pleasure to read, but central to its theme is an unred...

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The ever-topical satire of small-town corruption and cravenness.

Russian literature, so full of enigmas, contains no greater creative mystery than Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol (1809-1852), who has done for the Russian novel and Russian prose what Pushkin has done for Russian poetry. Before these two men came Russian literature can hardly have been said to exist. It was pompous and effete with pseudo-classicism, foreign influences were strong, in the speech of the upper circles there was an overfondness for Ger...

DEAD SOULS, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, "the Russian novel, " not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpieces that have come since have grown out of it, like the limbs of a single tree. Dostoevsky goes so far as to bestow this tribute upon an earlier work by the same author, a short story entitled "...

Up-to-date translations of )The Marriage, The Gamblers( and )The Government Inspector(.

Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls is the great comic masterpiece of Russian literature-a satirical and splendidly exaggerated epic of life in the benighted provinces. Gogol hoped to show the world "the untold riches of the Russian soul" in this 1842 novel, which he populated with a Dickensian swarm of characters: rogues and scoundrels, landowners and serfs, conniving petty officials-all of them both utterly lifelike and alarmingly larger than life. ...

Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale, as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality, vulgarity, and pomp. As Gogol's wily antihero, Chichikov, combs the back country wheeling and dealing for "dead souls"--deceased serfs who still represent money to anyone sharp enough to trade in...

A few factual points ought to be explained to the reader, even though the novel itself eventually suffices to clarify some of them. First, the title of the book. Among Russian serf-owning gentry, the idiomatic way to assess someone's wealth was to express it in terms of the number of "souls" he owned-that is, male, adult serfs. Taxes on serfs had to be paid by the owner until the next census or registration date even if they may have died in t...

El aventurero Chichikov, ávido por aumentar su riqueza, recorre varias regiones de Rusia para adquirir ilegalmente un elevado número de almas muertas, es decir, para hacer pasar a su lista de propiedades nombres de siervos muertos, cuya defunción no ha sido constatada todavía por las autoridades oficiales. La novela se nos ofrece como un profundo estudio psicológico de caracteres rusos, de todas las clases sociales, desde el más humilde siervo...