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Dead Souls: A Novel

By Nikolai Gogol , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

Book information

Publisher
Vintage
Year
1997
ISBN
9780679776444, 0679776443
Open Library ID
OL7701155M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1156386 bytes)
Pages
368\368
Topic
Literature Prose
Library
avaxhome.ws
Time added
2010-05-31 12:12:34

Description

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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