Andre Manoel [17/06/10 10:06 -0300]:
Obviously you like 'the Russians'; acid test: did you like the Inspector
General? But this lot, well, War and Peace was as good or as bad as one of
That gogol social commentary disguised as farce play? I love it. Anything
at all by Gogol in fact (darker - 'the overcoat' for example)
It seems you understood it better than I did.
Gogol was dangerously subversive in his humor. Even more with his extremely
broad humor, giving his characters there names like "Khlopov" (Slap-ov) for
a schoolteacher, "Svistunov" (punch-ov) for a cop etc.
That's one reason why he was never proscribed by the communists, by the way
