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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."
Gore ot uma (Woe from Wit) The Gore ot uma we know is not the work which Griboedov dreamed of writing. In his own brief note on his comedy, probably written, according to Piksanov, at the end of 1824, he tells us: The first outline of this poem for the stage, as I conceived it, was of the utmost
Apr 17, 2020 · 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.
Mar 9, 2008 · Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
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. Fragments of the play in Polish rendition were printed in the Polish periodical Batamut (The Philanderer), published in Petersburg(1831, Nos ...
Translation by Mary Hobson of "Gore ot uma" [Too clever for comfort or The misfortunes of a thinking man] by Aleksandr Sergeyevich (1795-1829). Mary Hobson's translation won a bi-centenary prize for the best translation of the play "Gore ot uma" awarded by the Griboyedov Prize Trust in 1996.
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The comedy Gore ot uma ( Woe from Wit) by Aleksandr Sergeevich Griboedov is regarded as one of the finest in Russian literature. During Griboedov’s lifetime, however, production of the play was prohibited and only fragments of it were published because of his political leanings.
