How the Two Ivans Quarrelled
and Other Russian Comic Stories
(Sprache: Englisch)
The first story in this volume, How the Two Ivans Quarrelled, is an amusing portrayal of two exceptionally close friends, the mortal insult that drives them apart, and the ensuing chaos that occurs. This is Gogol's humour at its best, where the most...
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The first story in this volume, How the Two Ivans Quarrelled, is an amusing portrayal of two exceptionally close friends, the mortal insult that drives them apart, and the ensuing chaos that occurs. This is Gogol's humour at its best, where the most irrelevant-seeming details and turns of phrase take on a bizarre life of their own. Ivan Krylov's Panegyric in Memory of My Grandfather has an ingenuous narrator praise the nobility and modesty of a landowner whose actions prove him to be otherwise. The two tales by Mikhail Saltykov are satirical attacks on civil servants and Russia's autocracy. The final piece, Tolstoy's Ivan the Fool, is a playful and allegorical critique of contemporary Russian society. Together, they represent some of Russia's finest comic writing before the twentieth century.
Autoren-Porträt von Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) won fame as a short story writer, and in 1836, his satirical comedy The Government Inspector created such a furore that Gogol left Russia to settle in Rome, in self-imposed exile. Religious mania in his later years contributed to his early death in Moscow.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Nikolai Gogol
- 2011, 176 Seiten, Maße: 12,9 x 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Übersetzer: Guy Daniels
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade
- ISBN-10: 1847496644
- ISBN-13: 9781847496645
- Erscheinungsdatum: 30.06.2017
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
A fantastic, self-parodic, mock-heroic folk tale. Patrick McCabe
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