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The Inspector General

Nikolai Gogol

Paperback | Pages: 80 pages

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Title	:	The Inspector General
Author	:	Nikolai Gogol
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 80 pages
Published	:	November 24th 2011 by Dover Publications (first published 1835)
Categories	:	Classics. Plays. Cultural. Russia. Literature. Russian Literature. Fiction. Drama

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Considered the high point of Gogol's writing for the stage and a masterpiece of dramatic satire, The Inspector General skewers the stupidity, greed, and venality of Russian provincial officials. When it is announced that the Inspector General is coming to visit incognito, Anton, the chief of police, hastens to clean up the town before his arrival. Local officials scurry to hide evidence of bribe-taking and other misdeeds, setting the stage for the arrival from St. Petersburg of Ivan, a penurious gambler and rake who is promptly taken by the townspeople to be the dreaded Inspector General. Ivan, and his servant, Osip, soon take advantage of the situation with hilarious results. First performed in 1836, the play transcends regional and national boundaries to offer a biting, highly entertaining glimpse of universal human foibles and failings.

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Original Title:	Ревизор
ISBN:	0486285006 (ISBN13: 9780486285009)
Edition Language:	English

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A very entertaining play based on the irresponsibility of heads of government who was mistaken about the identity of an inspector. They did everything to prevent him from taking into account their lack of responsibility. This fake inspector used their stupidity and allowed himself to take from each a very large sum of money and all the services he wanted. Gogol highlights in a very entertaining setting how governors and heads of public authorities are only interested in their personal interests.

From BBC Radio 4 :The corrupt officials of a small Russian town react with terror to the news that an inspector will soon be arriving to investigate them. Farcical tale by Gogol, adapted by Rene Basilico.

I taught his Dead Souls a few times, but have just re-read this, a book I bought at a Princeton postdoc seminar in 1978, with the noted Russian scholar Kathryn Szczepanska (Hunter Coll) in it. Gogol's comedy satirizes the ranks of Czarist government, where a federal inspector is rumored to be looking into this rural town, and the fearful residents seize on a slim college-age gambler passing through as the great authority because he exhibits classy manners from St Petersburg. Hilarious because

Almost George-Bernard-Shaw-esque. With a lot of potential for physical comedy. The inevitable question becomes-- how does this compare with the Danny Kaye film of the same name? And, like most adaptations, my answer would be: there are good points to both.

Within the 96 pages, Gogol sums up a typical societal behavior, complete with the corrupt, inept officials, their sycophants...all and sundry and without omitting the humor. How i wish a government inspector would swing by our localities soon.

near perfect plot, hilarious,comic,sattiric and loads of irony

I never know what to rate "classics" like these. It's short, to the point, and in my own limited experience with the genre, very very Russian. It's also 180 (!) years removed from its first performance in public, which astounds me - the mistaken identity trope has been done and redone to death in the 2 centuries since, but you can't hold it against THIS tale. (That's another problem with classics - there's a "oh, ok, been there done that" aspect to a lot of the plots, and giving them the credit