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Dead Souls
By Nikolai Gogol
Binding:
Paperback
Publisher:
Vintage, (3/25/1997)
Language:
English
Average Rating:
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Since its publication in 1842,
Dead Souls
has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality, vulgarity, and pomp. As Gogol's wily antihero, Chichikov, combs the back country wheeling and dealing for "dead souls"--deceased serfs who still represent money to anyone sharp enough to trade in them--we are introduced to a Dickensian cast of peasants, landowners, and conniving petty officials, few of whom can resist the seductive illogic of Chichikov's proposition. This lively, idiomatic English version by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky makes accessible the full extent of the novel's lyricism, sulphurous humor, and delight in human oddity and error.
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Challenging read, enjoyed by all. We recommend The Overcoat, also by Gogol, a short story. Similar to Dickens in the minute descriptions and character studies.
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By Nikolai Gogol
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