Project Gutenberg 2003-02-01 Public domain in the USA. 1120 Gogol, Nikolai Vasilevich 1809 1852 Gogol, Nikolay Vasilyevich Гоголь, Николай Васильевич Gogol, Nikolaj Seltzer, Thomas 1873 1943 Revizor. English The Inspector-General Produced by Judy Boss, and David Widger "The Inspector-General" by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol is a classic comedy written in the early 19th century, often hailed as one of the greatest works of Russian literature. The play centers around the character of Ivan Aleksandrovich Khlestakov, a low-level government clerk who becomes mistakenly identified as a high-ranking inspector by the corrupt officials of a small provincial town. The narrative seamlessly blends humor with sharp social commentary, exploring themes of bureaucracy, corruption, and the absurdity of human behavior. At the start of the play, the Governor and various officials are thrown into a state of panic when they learn that an Inspector-General is coming to their town incognito. Fearing exposure of their corruption and incompetence, they start making frantic preparations to present a façade of efficiency and proper conduct. In the midst of this chaos, Khlestakov arrives at the inn, and a series of misunderstandings leads the officials to believe he is the inspector. As they fawn over him and try to impress, Khlestakov—who is only scraping by himself—becomes embroiled in the absurdity of their grandiose attempts to placate him, setting the stage for a hilarious critique of power dynamics and societal pretensions. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Comedies Russia -- Social life and customs -- Drama Russian drama -- Translations into English PG Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 238964 238965 2024-10-02T09:43:34.389262 2023-10-02T08:38:49.190563 text/html text/html 237309 2013-02-04T11:28:50 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 76471 2013-02-04T11:28:50 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 149705 2024-10-02T09:43:41.182193 application/epub+zip 153732 2024-10-02T09:43:37.225232 application/epub+zip 145578 2024-10-02T09:43:35.916234 application/epub+zip 274178 2024-10-02T09:43:44.159719 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 256791 2024-10-02T09:43:40.452227 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 233228 2022-09-02T11:27:51.916341 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 191516 191494 2024-10-02T09:43:33.845256 2023-10-02T08:38:48.753570 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 191383 2010-02-14T11:15:52 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 71756 2010-02-14T11:17:08 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 191376 2010-02-14T11:16:14 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 71733 2010-02-14T11:17:08 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 23395 2024-10-02T09:43:44.317681 application/rdf+xml 10575 2024-10-02T09:43:36.563255 image/jpeg 2743 2024-10-02T09:43:36.272214 image/jpeg 147877 2024-10-02T09:43:34.407316 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog de.wikipedia fi.wikipedia en.wikipedia en.wikipedia