The tale of how Ivan Ivanovich quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich

The tale of how Ivan Ivanovich quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich
Title The tale of how Ivan Ivanovich quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich PDF eBook
Author Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ
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Release 1970
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The story of how Ivan Ivanovich quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich

The story of how Ivan Ivanovich quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich
Title The story of how Ivan Ivanovich quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich PDF eBook
Author Nikolai Gogol
Publisher Livraria Press
Pages 97
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Genre Fiction
ISBN 3989884565

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This is a new translation from the original Russian manuscript of Gogol's classic Nevsky Avenue. This edition contains an Afterword by the Translator, a timeline of Gogol's life and works and an Index of Gogol's individual works. Originally published in a collection called "Petersburg stories", this is one of the first uses of the technique of the grotesque, which was largely created by Gogol and copied (along with tragi-comic surrealism) by Kafka.

The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich (Annotated with Biography)

The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich (Annotated with Biography)
Title The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich (Annotated with Biography) PDF eBook
Author Nikolai Gogol
Publisher Golgotha Press
Pages 99
Release 2013-11-21
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1610427416

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This story takes place in a bucolic small town of Mirgorod (Myrhorod in Ukrainian), written in the style featuring grotesque, realistic portrayals of the characters. The two Ivans are gentlemen landowners, neighbors and great friends, each one almost being the opposite image of the other. Ivan Ivanovich is tall, thin, and well-spoken, for example, while Ivan Nikiforovich is short, fat, and cuts to the point with a biting honesty. One day, Ivan Ivanovich notices his friend's servant hanging some clothes out to dry as well as some military implements, especially a Turkish rifle that interests him. He goes over to Nikiforovich's house and offers to trade it for a brown pig and two sacks of oats, but his friend is unwilling to part with it and calls Ivan Ivanovich a goose, which terribly offends him. After this, they begin to hate each other.

The Tale of how Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich

The Tale of how Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich
Title The Tale of how Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich PDF eBook
Author Nikolái Vasílievich Gógol
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Pages 142
Release 1970
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How the Two Ivans Quarrelled

How the Two Ivans Quarrelled
Title How the Two Ivans Quarrelled PDF eBook
Author Nikolai Gogol
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Pages 30
Release 2020-03-15
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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.

How the Two Ivans Quarrelled Illustrated

How the Two Ivans Quarrelled Illustrated
Title How the Two Ivans Quarrelled Illustrated PDF eBook
Author Nikolai Gogol
Publisher
Pages 64
Release 2020-11-26
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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.

How the Two Ivans Quarrelled

How the Two Ivans Quarrelled
Title How the Two Ivans Quarrelled PDF eBook
Author Nikolai Nikolai Gogol
Publisher CreateSpace
Pages 28
Release 2015-05-24
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ISBN 9781512364965

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This story takes place in a bucolic small town of Mirgorod (Myrhorod in Ukrainian), written in the style featuring grotesque, realistic portrayals of the characters. The two Ivans are gentlemen landowners, neighbors and great friends, each one almost being the opposite image of the other. Ivan Ivanovich is tall, thin, and well-spoken, for example, while Ivan Nikiforovich is short, fat, and cuts to the point with a biting honesty. One day, Ivan Ivanovich notices his friend's servant hanging some clothes out to dry as well as some military implements, especially a Turkish rifle that interests him. He goes over to Nikiforovich's house and offers to trade it for a brown pig and two sacks of oats, but his friend is unwilling to part with it and calls Ivan Ivanovich a goose, which terribly offends him. After this, they begin to hate each other. Nikiforovich erects a goose pen with two posts resting on Ivanovich's property, as if to rub in the insult. To retaliate, Ivan Ivanovich saws the legs off in the night and then fears that his former friend is going to burn his house down. Eventually, Ivan Ivanovich goes to the courts with a petition to have Ivan Nikiforovich arrested for his slander. The judge cannot believe what is occurring and tries to convince him to make amends, but he disregards their suggestions and leaves the courthouse. Shortly after this, Ivan Nikiforovich comes into the court with his own petition, to the amazement of those gathered there. Strangely enough, shortly after Ivan Nikiforovich leaves, the petition is stolen by a brown pig belonging to Ivan Ivanovich. The police chief's attempt to have the pig arrested and to convince Ivanovich to reconcile with his friend is unsuccessful. Because of the pig a new petition is filed, which is quickly duplicated and filed within a day, but sits in the archives for a few years. Eventually, the chief of police has a party that Ivan Ivanovich is attending, but his old friend does not, because neither will go anywhere where the other is present. The party guest Anton Prokofievich goes to Ivan Nikiforovich's house to convince him to come, unknown to the other Ivan. When he convinces him, he sits down to dinner and both Ivans notice each other sitting across the table and the party grows silent. However, they continue eating with nothing occurring. At the end of dinner both try to leave without the other noticing, and some of the party members push them towards each other so they make up. They begin to, but Nikiforovich mentions the word "goose" again, and Ivanovich storms out of the house. The narrator returns to Mirgorod many years later and sees the two Ivans again, completely worn out. Each is convinced that their case will be concluded in his favour the following day, and the narrator shakes his head in pity and leaves, stating: "It is a depressing world, gentlemen!" The 2002 BBC Radio 4 adaptation with Griff Rhys Jones ends with the two Ivans agreeing to fight a duel. Ivan Ivanovich, as the challenged party, has the choice of weapons, so he chooses the Turkish rifle, but the duel degenerates into a struggle for the rifle. It goes off in the struggle, having been overloaded with gunpowder, and the two Ivans are killed. They both go to Heaven, but upon seeing Ivan Ivanovich's outspread wings Ivan Nikiforovich again calls him "a goose," which sets off the squabble all over again.