The most important part of the book is the fourth chapter: "Commentary on the comedy "The Inspector General" on actions." Here Gogol's auto-commentary is considered, revealing the artist's idea, attention is paid to the writer's work on the language of the work, a variety of studies devoted to the analysis of comedy are attracted and cited. From the author of the book: Socio-political reality, naked comedy, went into the distant past; clarification is required for the broad Soviet reader to understand it.