Government Inspector, The
About the Story
Dramatist, novelist, and short story writer Nikolai Gogol was born in a small Ukrainian town. At age 12, he attended a boarding school, where he participated in school theater as both an actor and a director. As an adult, Gogol worked in the civil service and began writing stories about the Ukraine in his spare time. First performed in 1836, The Government Inspector is known as one of Gogol’s finest works. It satirizes Russian provincial bureaucracy by presenting an absurd, corrupt world where self-deception rules. Other notable works include Gogol’s short stories “The Overcoat” and “The Nose” and his novel Dead Souls.
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