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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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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:480 pages
- Publisher:Everyman
- Publication Date:02/09/2004
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- ISBN:9781857152807
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:480 pages
- Publisher:Everyman
- Publication Date:02/09/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9781857152807
