num_pages: 144
description: Nikolai Gogol’s short story is a sublime work of tragi–comedy. In it, he brilliantly ridicules the Ukrainian passion for litigation and reveals life as something really rather absurd. Ivan Ivanovich and Ivan Nikiforovich are the greatest of friends—until the day they begin a foolish quarrel that culminates in that very worst of “And you, Ivan Ivanovich, are a goose.” From that moment on, not another word is spoken between them as they choose instead to fight out their differences in the courts. But it seems theirs is a lawsuit that is set to run for years and years… With a Foreword by Patrick McCabe.
language: English
title: Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich
titlecomplete: Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich
genres: Classics, Short Stories, Russia, Humor, Novella, Russian Literature, Ukraine, Literature, 19th Century, Fiction
ratings_count: 1739
publisher: Bristol Classical Press