Gogol Nikolai
Dead Souls
Paperback
(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Aug. 11, 2014)
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.
- ISBN
- 1500801895 / 9781500801892
- Pages
- 304
- Weight
- 25.12 oz.
- Dimensions
- 8.5 x 0.69 in.
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