Gogol: Plays and Selected Writings

The theatrical genius of Nikolay Gogol has gone largely unappreciated by English-speaking audiences because pedantically literal translations have left his plays virtually unperformable. These fresh translations restore the vitality of Gogol's language and humor, finally allowing his dramatic art to speak directly to Western readers, directors, actors, and theater-goers. This volume contains The Government Inspector and Marriage - Gogol's greatest full-length plays, comedic cornerstones of the Russian theatrical repertoire - and a one-act satire, The Gamblers. Also included are writings on theater from Gogol's notebooks and correspondences.

About the author

NIKOLAI VASILIEVICH GOGOL (1809-1852 ) was a Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist, novelist and short story writer. Considered by his contemporaries one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary realism, later critics have found in Gogol's work a fundamentally romantic sensibility, with strains of Surrealism and the grotesque.

Summary

A selection of translations of Gogol's greatest plays and writings on theatre.

Product details

• Authors: Milton Ehre, Nikolai Gogol, Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
• Assisted by: Milton Ehre (Editor), Milton (Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures Ehre (Translation), Fruma Gottschalk (Translation), Milton Ehre (Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures USA) (Translation)
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.11.1994
• EAN: 9780810111592
• ISBN: 978-0-8101-1159-2
• No. of pages: 205
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 287 g
• Series: European Drama Classics; European Drama Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies