num_pages: 119
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 insults: “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.
language: English
title: The Squabble
titlecomplete: The Squabble (Hesperus Classics)
genres: Fiction, Russian Literature, Humor, 19th Century, Classics, Ukraine, Novella, Russia, Literature, Short Stories
ratings_count: 1740
publisher: Hesperus Press