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Inspector
A Comedy in Five Acts
Description
Called "the greatest play written in Russian" by Vladimir Nabokov, Nikolai Gogol’s immortal comedy is a pitch-perfect satire of social corruption. Now, renowned American playwright Richard Nelson and the foremost contemporary translators of classic Russian literature Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, collaborate on a revelatory new translation of Gogol’s biting masterpiece. With an introduction and text notes by Richard Pevear, this essential edition marks the first in a series of translations of major works of Russian drama for TCG.
Reviews
"Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English."
- James Wood