Dead Souls
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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 Gogols 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 Chichikovs proposition. This lively, idiomatic English version by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky makes accessible the full extent of the novels lyricism, sulphurous humour, and delight in human oddity and error.
Author:
Nikolai Gogol
Cover:
Hardcover
Language:
ENG
Number of pages:
480
Publisher:
Everyman
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