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.
Together, they represent some of Russia’s finest comic writing before the twentieth century..
The final piece, Tolstoy’s Ivan the Fool, is a playful and allegorical critique of contemporary Russian society.
The two tales by Mikhail Saltykov are satirical attacks on civil servants and Russia’s autocracy.
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.
This is Gogol’s humour at its best, where the most irrelevant-seeming details and turns of phrase take on a bizarre life of their own.
Together, they represent some of Russia’s finest comic writing before the twentieth century.
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.
The final piece, Tolstoy’s Ivan the Fool, is a playful and allegorical critique of contemporary Russian society.
The two tales by Mikhail Saltykov are satirical attacks on civil servants and Russia’s autocracy.
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.
This is Gogol’s humour at its best, where the most irrelevant-seeming details and turns of phrase take on a bizarre life of their own.
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
