Classics
3 total works
Although largely composed by Gogol during self-imposed exile in Italy in the late 1830s, this work remains perhaps the most essentially Russian of novels. The reader follows Chichikov, a dismissed civil servant turned confidence man, through the countryside in pursuit of his shady enterprise.
The Government Inspector
by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Aleksander Sergeyvich Griboyedov, and Alexander Nikolaevich Ostrovsky
Published May 1968
This is the poet and playwright Adrian Mitchell's version of Gogol's classic satire on human vanity with its 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 greatest artist that Russia has yet produced" Vladimir Nabokov
Illuminates the Russian writer's thoughts on madness, bureaucracy, and illusion in these five tales.