The Government Inspector
Autor Nikolai Gogol Editat de Will Jonson Traducere de Thomas Seltzeren Limba Engleză Paperback
- The corrupt officials of a small Russian town, headed by the Mayor, react with terror to the news that an incognito inspector (the revizor) will soon be arriving in their town to investigate them. The flurry of activity to cover up their considerable misdeeds is interrupted by the report that a suspicious person has arrived two weeks previously from Saint Petersburg and is staying at the inn. That person, however, is not an inspector it is Khlestakov, a foppish civil servant with a wild imagination. Having learned that Khlestakov has been charging his considerable hotel bill to the Crown, the Mayor and his crooked cronies are immediately certain that this upper class twit is the dreaded inspector. For quite some time, however, Khlestakov does not even realize that he has been mistaken for someone else. Meanwhile, he enjoys the officials' terrified deference and moves in as a guest in the Mayor's house. He also demands and receives massive "loans" from the Mayor and all of his associates. He also flirts outrageously with the Mayor's wife and daughter.The Government Inspector, also known as The Inspector General (Russian: Ревизор, Revizor, literally: "Inspector"), 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.According to D. S. Mirsky, the play "is not only supreme in character and dialogue - it is one of the few Russian plays constructed with unerring art from beginning to end. The great originality of its plan consisted in the absence of all love interest and of sympathetic characters. The latter feature was deeply resented by Gogol's enemies, and as a satire the play gained immensely from it. There is not a wrong word or intonation from beginning to end, and the comic tension is of a quality that even Gogol did not always have at his beck and call."The dream-like scenes of the play, often mirroring each other, whirl in the endless vertigo of self-deception around the main character, Khlestakov, who personifies irresponsibility, light-mindedness, absence of measure.
- "He is full of meaningless movement and meaningless fermentation incarnate, on a foundation of placidly ambitious inferiority" (D.S. Mirsky). The publication of the play led to a great outcry in the reactionary press. It took the personal intervention of Tsar Nicholas I to have the play staged, with Mikhail Shchepkin taking the role of the Mayor.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781530891207
ISBN-10: 1530891205
Pagini: 80
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 4 mm
Greutate: 0.12 kg
Editura: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN-10: 1530891205
Pagini: 80
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 4 mm
Greutate: 0.12 kg
Editura: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Caracteristici
A satire of the corruption, greed and stupidity of Russian officialdom
Notă biografică
Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) was a Russian short story writer, playwright and novelist born in the Ukrainian Cossack town of Sorochyntsi. Often referred to as the Father of the Golden Age of Russian Literature, Gogol was the author of the first great Russian novel, Dead Souls, 1842. He was one of the first writers to use the grotesque in his work, and the famous trope can be seen in his well-known short story, The Overcoat, 1842.
Recenzii
Roger Cockrell's freer and livelier versions, of which thereare many more examples, mean that any company planninga new production of the play would be well advised to usethis fresh, highly actable (and, for good measure, attractivelyproduced) translation of Gogol's timeless classic.
Roger Cockrell goes straight for the funny bone. His characters speak their truths in intoxicating, colourful English. [.] This reader of Roger Cockrell's lively and hilarious Government Inspector cannot wait to see it staged.
Roger Cockrell goes straight for the funny bone. His characters speak their truths in intoxicating, colourful English. [.] This reader of Roger Cockrell's lively and hilarious Government Inspector cannot wait to see it staged.
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The story of a penniless nobody from Moscow who is mistaken for a government inspector by the corrupt and self-seeking officials of a small town in Tsarist Russia, "The Government Inspector", Gogol's masterpiece was regarded by Vladimir Nabokov as the greatest play in the Russian language.
The story of a penniless nobody from Moscow who is mistaken for a government inspector by the corrupt and self-seeking officials of a small town in Tsarist Russia, "The Government Inspector", Gogol's masterpiece was regarded by Vladimir Nabokov as the greatest play in the Russian language.