Name: The Government Inspector (by Nikolai Gogol)
Released: 2019-03-16

For a Handful of Books

S22 · E9 — The Government Inspector (by Nikolai Gogol)

S22:E9 · The Government Inspector (by Nikolai Gogol)

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The Government Inspector (by Nikolai Gogol)

Season 22 · Episode 9 · Mar 16, 2019

In this episode of "Per Un Pugno di Libri", the "Giuseppe Berto" Scientific High School of Mogliano Veneto confronts the "Leonardo" Scientific High School of Brescia on the theatrical work of one of the most important Russian writers of the 19th century: Nikolaj Gogol', "The Government Inspector". Written in 1836, the work is a satire on hypocrisy, bad habits, and corruption in a small Russian town where the Mayor is frightened by the arrival of an inspector general, coming from Petersburg. In reality, the inspector, the young Chlestakov, is not a real inspector, but a layabout who through a series of misunderstandings has become the most feared man in the town. As often happens in his works, Gogol' proves extraordinary in representing the pettiness and moral baseness of certain human types who continue to be present in the ranks of today's bureaucracy.

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The Government Inspector (by Nikolai Gogol)

Season 22 · Episode 9 · Mar 16, 2019

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