How the Two Ivans Quarelled
Nikolai Gogol(Author)
Alma Classics (Publisher)
Published on 21. February 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-84749-173-2 (ISBN)
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Description
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 suddenly take on a bizarre life of their own. The second story, 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 final two stories, by the Russian satirist Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, are satirical attacks on the inability of civil servants to cope with real life, and on Russia's autocracy. Together, they represent some of Russia's finest comic writing before the twentieth century.
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a fantastic, self-parodic, mock-heroic folk taleA" Patrick McCabeMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Richmond
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Alma Books Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 128 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84749-173-2 (9781847491732)
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Book
02/2011
Alma Classics
€12.00
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Person
One of the leading figures in nineteenth-century Russian literature, Nikolai Gogol (1809-52) is best-known for his satirical masterpiece, Dead Souls, and humorous plays and short stories such as The Government Inspector and The Overcoat, written in a highly original and often experimental style.