- Forfatter: Nikolai Gogol
- Format: Innbundet
- Antall sider: 480
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- Serienavn: Everyman's Library CLASSICS
- EAN: 9781857152807
- Utgivelsesår: 2004
- Bidragsyter: Gogol, Nikolai
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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 humour, and delight in human oddity and error.
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