The Squabble - Hesperus Classics Author:Nikolai Gogol 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... more », 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.« less