71 Ergebnisse - Zeige 61 von 71.

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

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.

Keine Beschreibung.

Keine Beschreibung.

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...

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...

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...