The Inspector-General
- Authors
- Gogol, Nikolai & Seltzer, Thomas
- Publisher
- Floating Press
- Tags
- classics
- ISBN
- 9781775451556
- Date
- 1835-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.16 MB
- Lang
- en
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).