Kategorie: Powieść zagraniczna

Isbn: 9781840227291

Ean: 9781840227291

Liczba stron: 552

Format: 12.5x19.5cm

Gogol?s works constitute one of Russian literature?s supreme achievements, yet the nature of their brilliant originality, comic genius, and complex workings is difficult to summarize precisely. The Government Inspector, a perennial favourite on stage and screen, is considered a national institution in Russia, and Gogol?s stories present us with one of the most marvellous worlds a writer has ever created. His quirky characters - the lowly official who imagines himself to be the King of Spain, the man committed to chase his nose around St. Petersburg, a whole village paralyzed at the prospect of being visited by an authority from the capital - are immortal. Although Gogol?s fiction was commandeered by Russia?s progressive critics as the work of an important social commentator, he was in many ways an arch-conservative, and there is a madcap strain in it that makes him a precursor of Kafka and absurdist drama.

Oprawa: miękka

Wydawca: Wordsworth