Title: The government inspector Comedy in five acts Russi - Tapa blanda

Hardcover. Condici�n: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Raduga Publishers, Russian Classics Series [Published Date: 1989]. Hardcover, 318 pp. 1989 edition. English translation by Christopher English. Very good in very good dust jacket. Black boards with gold lettering. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a few small nicks and light creasing along edges. Light overall scuffing to jacket as well. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Fontis-piece illustration of Gogol. Contents include: Forward : Nikolai Gogol by S. Mashinsky; The Government Inspector; Nevsky Prospekt; The Nose; The Portrait; The Greatcoat; Diary of a Madman; Notes. [From back cover] Gogol was a strange creature, but genius is always strange; it is only your healthy second-rater who seems to the grateful reader to be a wise old friend, nicely developing the reader's own notions of life. Great literature skirts the irrational. "Hamlet" is the wild dream of a neurotic scholar. Gogol's "The Overcoat" (in our edition "The Greatcoat" - Ed.) is a grotesque and grim nightmare making black holes in the dim pattern of life. The superficial reader of that story will merely see in it the heavy frolics of an extravagant buffoon; the solemn reader will take for granted that Gogol's prime intention was to denounce the horrors of Russian bureaucracy. But neither the person who wants a good laugh, nor the person who craves for books "that make one think" will understand what "The Overcoat" is really about. Give me the creative reader; this is a tale for him. Steady Pushkin, matter-of-fact Tolstoy, restrained Chekhov have all had their moments of irrational insight which simultaneously blurred the sentence and disclosed a secret meaning worth the sudden focal shift. But with Gogol this shifting is the very basis of his art, so that whenever he tried to write in the round hand of literary tradition and to treat rational ideas in a logical way he lost all trace of talent. When, as in his immortal "Overcoat", he really let himself go and pottered happily on the brink of his private abyss, he became the greatest artist that Russia has yet produced. - Vladimir Nabokov. N� de ref. del art�culo: 20240915018

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