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The Government Inspector

Author
Nikolai Gogol
Language
Russian
Length
96 pages
ISBN
9781787368545
Published
4 January 2024
Imprint
Sovereign
  • satire
  • corruption
  • bureaucracy
  • mistaken identity
  • incompetence
  • small town
  • farce
  • social critique
  • absurdity
  • human nature

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In "The Government Inspector," Gogol satirizes corruption and incompetence in a small Russian town. Mistaking a lowly clerk for a high-ranking government official, the townspeople go to great lengths to please him. The comedy unfolds as the imposter revels in the absurdity, exposing the flaws of the bureaucratic system and human nature itself.

Author

Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852) was the master of a satire so quiet it can seem harmless — until the ground shifts beneath it. In Dead Souls he mapped the hollow soul of imperial Russia with comic precision; in The Overcoat and The Nose he turned ordinary clerks and missing body parts into fables of humiliation, obsession, and bureaucratic nightmare.

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