Word: gogol
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR by NIKOLAI GOGOL...
...fully developed bureaucracy is the most ludicrous form of tyranny. Petty, self-important and stupid men, who in themselves amount to nothing, become bloated with their functions and turn authority into farce. This is the central aspect of Gogol's 140-year-old surrealistic satire The Government Inspector...
...like "Sirin," the pen name of one Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, an émigré Russian of illustrious but not aristocratic background who wrote in Berlin, not Paris, after the revolution. This Sirin, Nabokov has been heard to assert, is a writer to be ranked with Pushkin, Tolstoy and Gogol, and well above Dostoyevsky...
...Inspecter General. The Harvard Dramatic Club's latest offering has John Rudman imperanating the Inspector General and other actors impersonating the cast of Nikolai Gogol's 19th century satire on the bureaucratic life of czarist Russia. While director George Hamlin`s tepid orchestration keeps the production off-key, the general competence makes it at least hummable...
...obvious level The Inspector General is a satire on the czarist government and Russia's corrupt bureaucracy. It appealed to Casr Nicholas for some reason, and he ordered it performed, so Gogol never has any difficulty with the censors. The literary critics of the intelligentsia praised it for its social content, though Gogol minimized that facet of The Inspector General. He attempted to explain the play himself, always a dangerous course for a writer to take in relation to his own production. Vladimir Nabokov commented that this interpretation might well be considered "the kind of deceit that is practiced...