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Dead Souls:a Novel
[Paperback - 1997]
nikolai gogol
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Classics
Additional Category: Historical Fiction - Humorous Fiction
Publisher: Vintage | ISBN: 9780679776444 | Pages: 432
Shipping Weight: .335 | Dimensions: 5.14 x .89 x 8 inches

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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.

About the Author

People consider that Russian writerNikolai Vasilievich Gogol(Николай Васильевич Гоголь) founded realism in Russian literature. His works includeThe Overcoat(1842) andDead Souls(1842).Ukrainian birth, heritage, and upbringing of Gogol influenced many of his written works among the most beloved in the tradition of Russian-language literature. Most critics see Gogol as the first Russian realist. His biting satire, comic realism, and descriptions of Russian provincials and petty bureaucrats influenced later Russian mastersLeo Tolstoy,Ivan Turgenev, and especiallyFyodor Dostoyevsky. Gogol wittily said many later Russian maxims.Gogol first used the techniques of surrealism and the grotesque in his worksThe Nose,Viy,The Overcoat, andNevsky Prospekt. Ukrainian upbringing, culture, and folklore influenced his early works, such asEvenings on a Farm near Dikanka.His later writing satirized political corruption in the Russian empire inDead Souls.

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