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   Woe from Wit (Russian: Го́ре от ума́, romanized: Gore ot uma, also translated as "The Woes of Wit", "Wit Works Woe", Wit's End, [1] [2] and so forth) is Alexander Griboyedov's comedy in verse, satirizing the society of post-Napoleonic Moscow, or, as a high official in the play styled it, "a pasquinade on Moscow."

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   Neither these nor his essays and poetry would have been long remembered but for the success of his verse comedy Woe from Wit (Russian: Горе от ума, Gore ot Uma), a satire on Russian aristocratic society.

3. www.jstor.org › stable › 25777633STRUCTURAL FOOTNOTES TO GRIBOEDOVS WOE FROM WIT

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   Aleksandr S. Griboedov's masterpiece, the comedy Gore ot uma (Woe from Wit) has been translated into many languages, including English, French, German and Italian. It roused warm acclaim among the Poles.

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   Apr 17, 2020 · Critics like to compare Gore ot uma with Molière’s The Misanthrope, and there are definite similarities. Both Alceste and Chatsky scorn the hypocrisies and corruption of the aristocratic society in which they move, but are hopelessly in love with a flirt who shines in just such a society.

5. discovery.ucl.ac.uk › id › eprintGriboedov's "Gore ot uma" in the context of his life and ...

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   This dissertation seeks to analyse and account for the disparity between Gore ot uma and Griboedov's other works, by examining his plays and poems, his letters and travel notes, the memoirs of his contemporaries, his literary sources and social milieu.

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   And in those days the men of importance — big, heavy men they were too —didn't simply nod their heads— they bowed properly. A grandee in high favour seemed to be of different flesh and blood from...

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   Is Gore ot uma similar to The Misanthrope?

   • Critics like to compare Gore ot uma with Molière’s The Misanthrope, and there are definite similarities. Both Alceste and Chatsky scorn the hypocrisies and corruption of the aristocratic society in which they move, but are hopelessly in love with a flirt who shines in just such a society.

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   Why is Gore ot uma not known in English?

   • This may explain why one of the masterpieces of Russian drama, Gore ot uma by Aleksandr Griboedov (pronounced Gri-boy-EH-doff), is virtually unknown in the English-speaking world. The title alone presents a problem: literally, it means Grief as a Result of Intelligence, but um can also be rendered as “mind,” “wit,” “cleverness.”

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   When was Gore ot uma published?

   • Composed between 1819 and 1824, publication of Gore ot Uma was prevented by state censorship until 1833 and then only with substantial cuts. Yet even as the manuscript was being passed from hand to hand – a typical Russian transmission of proscribed writing — its lines were becoming proverbial.

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   Where did Colin Firth perform Gore ot uma?

   • His translation was performed at the Almeida Theatre in London in 1993 with Colin Firth as a Byronic Chatsky. The mention of Firth, an epochal Mr. Darcy, recalls that Gore ot uma is only somewhat later than the novels of Jane Austen and that its language may sound quaint to the modern ear.

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8. www.jstor.org › stable › 40921996A.S. Griboyedov, Gore ot uma, edited with introduction ...

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   A.S. Griboyedov, Gore ot uma, edited with introduction, bibliography and vocabulary by Richard Peace, notes by D.P. Costello, Bristol Classical Press, 1995, 178 pp, paperback. Reviewed by Hilary Chapman. This edition of A.S. Griboyedov's Gore ot uma was brought out in 1995 to mark the bicentenary of the writer's birth and also