Книга: Gogol Nikolai «How the Two Ivans Quarrelled and Other Russian Comic Stories»

How the Two Ivans Quarrelled and Other Russian Comic Stories

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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 it's 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.

Издательство: "Alma/Oneworld" (2011)

ISBN: 978-1-84749-664-5

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GOGOL, Nikolai

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  • Gogol,Nikolai Vasilievich — Go·gol (gôʹgəl, gōʹgôl), Nikolai Vasilievich. 1809 1852. Russian writer considered the founder of realism in Russian literature. His works include the story “The Overcoat” (1842) and the novel Dead Souls (1842). * * * …   Universalium

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