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Dead Souls

By Nikolai Gogol , Susanne Fusso (transl.) , Bernard Guilbert Guernsey (ed.)

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
1996
ISBN
0300060998, 9780300060997
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
28 MB (29583035 bytes)
Pages
304\304
Topic
Literature Prose
Time added
2015-10-19 10:09:10
Библиотека;Русская литература;На английском языке;

Description

Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls, a comic masterpiece about a mysterious con man and his grotesque victims, is one of the major works of Russian literature. It was translated into English in 1942 by Bernard Guilbert Guerney; the translation was hailed by Vladimir Nabokov as "an extraordinarily fine piece of work" and is still considered the best translation of Dead Souls ever published. Long out of print, the Guerney translation of Dead Souls is now reissued. The text has been made more faithful to Gogol's original by removing passages that Guerney inserted from earlier drafts of Dead Souls. The text is accompanied by Susanne Fusso's introduction and by appendixes that present excerpts from Guerney's translations of other drafts of Gogol's work and letters Gogol wrote around the time of the writing and publication of Dead Souls.

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