Gogol: Plays and Selected Writings / Edition 1

by Nikolai Gogol

Overview

The theatrical genius of Gogol has gone largely unappreciated by English-speaking audiences because literal translations have left his plays virtually impossible to perform. These fresh translations restore the vitality of Gogol's language and humor, allowing his dramatic art to speak to readers, directors, actors, and theater-goers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900810111591
Publisher:	Northwestern University Press
Publication date:	11/23/1994
Series:	European Drama Classics
Edition description:	Translated
Pages:	205
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

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.

Editorial Reviews

**** The original edition, published as The Theater of Nikolay Gogol (U. Of Chicago Press, 1980) is cited in BCL3. Eschews the pedantic, literal translation that has in the past rendered Gogol's plays virtually unperformable in English. Fresh translations are provided of The Government Inspector and Marriage, considered by many to be Gogol's greatest full-length plays, and a one-act satire, The Gamblers, as well as his writings on theater from his notebooks and correspondences. No index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

"This translation is the best I have read—and there are scores of them including my own." —E.J. Czerwinski, Comparative Drama

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