“The Government Inspector” through the prism of Sodom and Gomorrah.
The bureaucrats so brilliantly described by Gogol immediately reminded me of this biblical story. There, two angels descended upon the city — and here, too, angels appeared from nowhere. After all, we will never truly know where Khlestakov actually came from.
And so these two set out for the city in search of an honest man — but they did not find one…
— Avtandil Varsimaishvili
(based on The Government Inspector
by Nikolai Gogol)
