Woe from Wit: A Verse Comedy in Four Acts

by Alexander Griboyedov and Alexander Gribojedow

Book Overview

Alexander Griboedov's Woe from Wit is one of the masterpieces of Russian drama. A verse comedy set in Moscow high society after the Napoleonic wars, it offers sharply drawn characters and clever repartee, mixing meticulously crafted banter and biting social critique. Its protagonist, Alexander Chatsky, is an idealistic ironist, a complex Romantic figure who would be echoed in Russian literature from Pushkin onward. Chatsky returns from three...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231189796
• ISBN13: 9780231189798
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"