A classic-momument. Gogol whose work is any quality (new Petersburg, Taras Bulba, hamlet of nights, the Government Inspector) offers us intelligent description, careful and critical of the Russian world leaders, officials and smallholders) The portraits he Because of his characters make the types as can Harpagon or Tartuffe. It follows Gogol invites us in strange Russian (misers, bullies, dreamy, corrupt, bourgeois provinces, liars, ...). Extraordinary passages.