Gogol Three Plays: The Government Inspector; Marriage; The Gamblers - Couverture souple

Gogol, Nikolai

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0413733408 ISBN 13 : 9780413733405

Editeur : Methuen Drama, 1999

Synopsis

Book by Gogol Nikolai Mulrine Stephen

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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)

Biographie de l'auteur

Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) won fame as a short story writer, and in 1836, his satirical comedy The Government Inspector created such a furore that Gogol left Russia to settle in Rome, in self-imposed exile. Religious mania in his later years contributed to his early death in Moscow.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Methuen Drama
• Date d'édition: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0413733408
• ISBN 13: 9780413733405
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 252