Although it may read to modern audiences like a hilarious slapstick comedy, The Inspector-General is actually much more than that. Famed Russian writer Nikolai Gogol intended it to be a veiled but pointed satire of the ineptitude, corruption, and greed that exemplified the Russian bureaucracy in the nineteenth century. The witty play was later used as the basis for a movie version starring Danny Kaye (1949).
| ISBN: | 9781775451556 |
| Publication date: | 1st February 2011 |
| Author: | Gogol, Nikolai |
| Publisher: | The Floating Press |
| Format: | Ebook (Epub) |