Lorsque Khlestakov, jeune voyageur pétersbourgeois endetté et affamé, arrive dans «un petit trou de province», il ne s'attend pas à un tel accueil. Hébergement, vins, cigares, vêtements et équipages élégants: rien ne lui est refusé par Anton Antonovitch, le gouverneur qui vient à sa rencontre. D'abord surpris par tant d'hospitalité, il comprend bientôt qu'on le prend pour un révizor, c'est-à-dire un inspecteur envoyé par le gouvernement... Miroir de la société russe sous Nicolas Ier ? Satire de l'administration russe ? Comédie de tous les temps et de tous les pays ? Parabole métaphysique sur l'«empire du mal » ? Autant d'interrogations qui font la richesse du Révizor, pièce de Gogol représentée à Saint- Pétersbourg en 1836 et qui connut un retentissement considérable.
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© 1958, L'ARCHE, 86, rue Bonaparte, Paris,
tous droits réservés pour la traduction du Révizor.
© 1988, FLAMMARION, Paris, pour cette édition,
corrigée et mise à jour en 2009.
Nicolas Gogol
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1 April [O.S. 20 March] 1809 – 4 March [O.S. 21 February] 1852) was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin.
Gogol used the grotesque in his writings, for example in his works "The Nose", "Viy", "The Overcoat", and "Nevsky Prospekt". These stories, and others such as "Diary of a Madman", have also been noted for their proto-surrealist qualities. According to Viktor Shklovsky, Gogol used the technique of defamiliarization, whereby a writer presents common things in an unfamiliar or strange way so that the reader can gain new perspectives and see the world differently. His early works, such as Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, were influenced by his Ukrainian upbringing, Ukrainian culture and folklore. His later writing satirised political corruption in contemporary Russia (The Government Inspector, Dead Souls), although Gogol also enjoyed the patronage of Tsar Nicholas I, who liked his work. The novel Taras Bulba (1835), the play Marriage (1842), and the short stories "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich", "The Portrait", and "The Carriage" are also among his best-known works.
Many writers and critics have recognized Gogol's deep influence on Russian, Ukrainian and world literature. Gogol's influence was acknowledged by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Franz Kafka, Mikhail Bulgakov, Vladimir Nabokov, Flannery O'Connor and others. Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé said: "We all came out from under Gogol's Overcoat."
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