The Inspector General (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Nikolai Gogol
- First Published: 1836
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: Early nineteenth century
- Genres: Satire, Drama
- Subjects: Nineteenth century, Small-town life, Corruption, Russia or Russian people, Bureaucracy or bureaucrats
- Locales: Russia
Places Discussed
*Provincial Russia. At the heart of Gogol’s satire is the inefficiency and corruption in Russia’s rural provinces, due in large part to the central government’s inability to maintain control from a distance. Setting the play in an unnamed rural village allows Gogol to illustrate this point by providing an intimate portrait of these two opposing forces, the central bureaucracy and its minor rural officials.
Antonovich’s house. With the exception of act 2, the play is set entirely in one room of Anton Antonovich’s house. Gogol’s notes direct...
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