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A new translation of Nikolai Gogol's comic masterpiece by the renowned translators, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonksy (winner of two PEN/Book-Of-The-Month Translation Awards) and the playwright/director, Richard Nelson (Tony Award, Olivier Award).
"I have invited you here, gentlemen, to give you a most unpleasant piece of news: an inspector is coming."
ACT ONE
"He'll spread his story over the whole world! Not only will he make me a laughingstock, but some scribbler will come along, some pen-pusher, and put me into a comedy! ...Everyone will bare their teeth and clap their hands. What are you laughing at? You're laughing at yourselves!"
ACT FIVE
Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809–1852) was one of nineteenth-century Russia’s greatest writers and a profound influence on Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mikhail Bulgakov, Vladimir Nabokov, and countless other authors. His best-known works include the novel Dead Souls (1842) and the stories “The Overcoat,” “The Nose,” and “Memoirs of a Madman.” In 1852, he burned most of his manuscripts, including the second part of Dead Souls. He died nine days later.
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