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Gogol's works constitute one of Russian literature's supreme achievements, yet the nature of their brilliant originality, comic genius, and complex workings is difficult to summarize precisely. The Government Inspector, a perennial favourite on stage and screen, is considered a national institution in Russia, and Gogol's stories present us with one of the most marvellous worlds a writer has ever created. His quirky characters - the lowly official who imagines himself to be the King of Spain, the man committed to chase his nose around St. Petersburg, a whole village paralyzed at the prospect of being visited by an authority from the capital - are immortal. Although Gogol's fiction was commandeered by Russia's progressive critics as the work of an important social commentator, he was in many ways an arch-conservative, and there is a madcap strain in it that makes him a precursor of Kafka and absurdist drama. İndirimli Fiyat : 17 ,36 TL. Stokta yok. Stokta olunca haber ver. The Government Inspector and Other Works. Stok Kodu. Yorum yaz. Sepete Ekle. Le Manteau. Palto Cep Boy. Karbon Kitaplar - Cep Kitaplar. Burun Cep Boy. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Wordsworth Classics. Robin Hood. An Arseme Lupin Omnibus. The Complete Fairy Tales. Hans Christian Andersen. Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Stories. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Divine Comedy. The Ultimate Classic Collection. The Little The Government Inspector and Other Works. Antoine The Government Inspector and Other Works Saint-Exupery. The Government Inspector - Wikipedia

Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Inspector and Other Plays The Government Inspector and Other Works Nikolai Gogol. Eric Bentley brings to the attention of Gogol's still growing American public not only a new version of Inspector, but three other dramatic works: The Marriage, Gamblers and A Madman's Diary the last-named being Bentley's dramatization of a famous Gogol story. In a critical preface, Bentley finds all four works to be a Gogolian treatment of love - or the lack of love - and Eric Bentley brings to the attention of Gogol's still growing American public not only a new version of Inspector, but three other dramatic works: The Marriage, The Government Inspector and Other Works and A Madman's Diary the last-named being Bentley's dramatization of a famous Gogol story. In a critical preface, Bentley finds all four works to be a Gogolian treatment of love - or the lack of love - and by the same token, thoroughly original works of dramatic art. Also includes a piece on Gamblers by the eminent Polish critic Jan Kott. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. Published June 1st by Applause Books first published More Details Original Title. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Inspector and Other Playsplease sign up. Be the first to ask a question about Inspector and Other Plays. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Inspector and Other Plays. I had read all of Gogol's fiction, except for his plays, which were hard to find. Recently, a wonderful edition of The Inspector was published by Theatre Communications Group and translated by none other than Pevear and Volokhonsky. I immediately bought and read it as all of Gogol's works, it was wonderful. Gogol also wrote two other plays, though - Marriage and The Gamblers - which I just couldn't find in a properly translated English edition. Then I stumbled on this collection, published by I had read all of Gogol's fiction, except for his plays, which were hard to find. Then I stumbled on this collection, published by Methuen Drama never heard of it before, to be honest. Re-reading The Government Inspector in a different translation can never hurt this is always the case for translated works, of course - the more translations you read, the betterwhile I finally got to read Gogol's other plays to complete my reading of his fiction. This edition has a good introduction and is nicely printed i. Marriage was The Government Inspector and Other Works me laughing out loud in several instances - it's pure Gogol. The Gamblers was not quite as good, but it was still intriguing with its plot twist near the end although, in all fairness, I saw it coming - and would The Government Inspector and Other Works most people to see it as well. View 2 comments. The Government Inspector is one of my favourite plays of all time. It is satire at its The Government Inspector and Other Works best; it shows the problems at every level of society, every occupation and without any The Government Inspector and Other Works for what people might think. Set in a small provincial government town who are expecting an inspector to arrive any day, a young man who is silly and broke, travelling back to his parents estate to The Government Inspector and Other Works for money. He arrives in the town and is mistaken for the Government Inspector. The story unfolds from there, b The Government Inspector is one of my favourite plays of all The Government Inspector and Other Works. The story The Government Inspector and Other Works from there, but it is brilliantly The Government Inspector and Other Works and clever. Oct 17, Derek Shouba rated it it was amazing. Gogol is probably responsible for much of the greatness of Russian literature. I guess we can credit his The Government Inspector and Other Works, playful, gothic imagination, or maybe we should be most thankful for his hilarious insecurities, including, perhaps, a repressed homosexuality. Feb 17, Samira rated it it was amazing. Efsane bir kitap. May 09, Keith rated it liked it. For the most part, he produces very accessible versions of plays, and frequently the only good English version of some plays. Overall, this set is good. The Inspector is a must read. I think it is very odd to include this. Gogol wrote a number of plays. It seemed to me, it was too short. There needed to be more. The changes and movements are too rapid. The letters written by the dogs are hysterical. He eventually escape his impending nuptials and sentencing by the priest by jumping out the window. Aug 21, John Jr. Eric Bentley points out in a preface that Russian has no articles didn't know that—did you? That matters more in the The Government Inspector and Other Works of Zhenitba, where we don't know whether to call it, in English, A Marriage, The Marriage, or the term for the state of matrimonial whatchamacallit, Marriage. Bentley chose to add "the" to the The Government Inspector and Other Works there, but for an unexplained reason he opted for no article in dealing with Revizor, Gogol's best-known play. Here called Inspector, it's usually titled The Government Inspect Eric Bentley points out in a preface that Russian has no articles didn't know that—did you? Nabokov has a point. It's more obvious in a work such as "The Nose," about how a man's nose leaves his face. But what looks in Inspector like a satire specific to Russian culture, namely its quick subservience to anything resembling authority, has a broader human truth to it: how easily, under certain conditions at least, we come to believe what we hope or fear to be the case. The story is simple in outline: the mayor of a small town learns of an impending visit by a government inspector, and when a stranger sets himself up in a hotel, everyone takes him to be the inspector attempting to work in secret. To me it's easy to imagine transplanting the idea from its original soil. I'm considering borrowing it for something I'm working on, which will probably be set in present-day America and among scientists no less. My project explains why I read only Inspector so far and am saving the rest for another day. View all 3 comments. Nov 20, John rated it liked it. I wish Gogol had written more. After reading Dead Souls, his Collected Stories, and now these plays, there is not much else left to read. I have found his writing very witty and enjoyable. He is great at creating funny circumstances that seem like they could happen in real life. He is believable in his settings, which I think adds to the humor he pulls off. He also captures characters very well, even if they are often a little typecast. I am very curious about what Gogol would have writte A 3. I am very curious about what Gogol would have written had he had more freedom. Writing in Russia when he did, there was a limit to what ideas he could express. He seemed to push those boundaries as it was, often subtly. But I would have loved to ha ve known what he was capable of if he had not been restricted. It is easy to compare him to Oscar Wilde, even though he wrote 50 years earlier. Both share a sharp pen and are able to give the reader much to think about between the lines. The Marriage — Witty and imaginative. Ahead of its time in poking a stick at the institution of marriage. I wanted more and I guess Gogol had more. I would think it a very hard monologue to perform, it would be hard to show the transformation the character takes so quickly. Inspector — Hilarious!