The Squabble
By Nikolai Gogol
Published by Hesperus Press
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Book Review
In The Squabble , Gogol 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, culminating 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…
Translator: Hugh Aplin
