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How the Two Ivans Quarrelled - And Other Russian Comic Stories

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Zusatztext A fantastic, self-parodic, mock-heroic folk tale. Informationen zum Autor One of the leading figures in nineteenth-century Russian literature, Nikolai Gogol (1809-52) is bestknown for his satirical masterpiece, Dead Souls, and humorous plays and short stories such as TheGovernment Inspector and The Overcoat, written in a highly original and trenchant style. Klappentext 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 take on a bizarre life of their own. 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 two tales by Mikhail Saltykov are satirical attacks on civil servants and Russia's autocracy. The final piece, Tolstoy's Ivan the Fool, is a playful and allegorical critique of contemporary Russian society. Together, they represent some of Russia's finest comic writing before the twentieth century. Zusammenfassung 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 take on a bizarre life of their own. 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 two tales by Mikhail Saltykov are satirical attacks on civil servants and Russia's autocracy. The final piece, Tolstoy's Ivan the Fool, is a playful and allegorical critique of contemporary Russian society. Together, they represent some of Russia's finest comic writing before the twentieth century....

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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 trenchant style.

Summary

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 take on a bizarre life of their own. 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 two tales by Mikhail Saltykov are satirical attacks on civil servants and Russia's autocracy. The final piece, Tolstoy's Ivan the Fool, is a playful and allegorical critique of contemporary Russian society. 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 tale. Patrick McCabe

Product details

Authors Guy Daniels, Nikolai Gogol, Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Gogol, Sadek Hedayat
Assisted by Guy Daniels (Translation)
Publisher Alma Books
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 28.09.2017
 
EAN 9781847496645
ISBN 978-1-84749-664-5
No. of pages 192
Dimensions 128 mm x 198 mm x 14 mm
Series Alma Classics
Alma Classics
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

FICTION / Humorous / General, Fiction in translation, Russian Literature; Satire; Comic

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