Dead Souls (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781508427902)

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.

Author: D. J. Hogarth, Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
ISBN-10: 1508427909
ISBN-13: 9781508427902
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 02/10/2015
Pages: 284
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.60d