The Inspector Author:Nikolai Gogol, Richard Nelson (Translator), Richard Pevear (Translator), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator) "Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English."--The New Yorker — Called "the greatest play written in Russian" by Vladimir Nabokov, Nikolai Gogol's comedy now has a revelatory new translation by renowned American playwright Richard Nelson and Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhon... more »sky, the foremost contemporary translators of classic Russian literature. The Inspector marks the first in a series of translations of major works of Russian drama.
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have produced acclaimed translations of Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Anton Chekhov and Mikhail Bulgakov. Their translations of The Brothers Karamazov and Anna Karenina won the 1991 and 2002 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prizes. Pevear, a native of Boston, and Volokhonsky, of St. Petersburg, are married to each other and live in Paris.« less