Translated by Constance GarnettNotes and Introductions by David Rampton,
Department of English, University of OttawaGogol'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.
The Government Inspector and Other Works - Nikolai Gogol
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