Gogol’s Crime and Punishment - An essay in the interpretation of Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Souls

A bold attempt at solving the riddle of Gogol's novel Dead Souls. Gogol constructed the novel strictly according to a moral pattern. The novel thus proves to be a true descendant of medieval romance with its inseparable interrelation between ethics and epics.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction: Of Beauty, Truth, and Evil
Part One: Chichikov¿s Prehistory

1.  Ethos and Epic
   
2.  The Ground Plan of Dead Souls
   
3.  The Ground Plan of Dead Souls Revisited
   

Part Two: Chichikov¿s Crime

1.  On Truth and Lies in a Moral Sense
   
2.  The Five Faces of Lying
   
3.  In the Shadow Realm of Lies
   

Part Three: Chichikov¿s Punishment

1.  Judgment and Rumor
   
2.  The Five Acts of the Drama
   
3.  Ethos and Epic: Chichikov¿s Crime and Punishment
   

Illustrations
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Urs Heftrich holds the Chair of Slavic Literatures at the University of Heidelberg. He is the author of four monographs. As an editor and prize-winning translator of Czech and Russian poetry, he has been mediating Slavic Literatures in Germany since 1989.

Summary

A bold attempt at solving the riddle of Gogol’s novel Dead Souls. Gogol constructed the novel strictly according to a moral pattern. The novel thus proves to be a true descendant of medieval romance with its inseparable interrelation between ethics and epics.

Product details

• Authors: Urs Heftrich
• Assisted by: Joseph Swann (Translation)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.03.2022
• EAN: 9781644697627
• ISBN: 978-1-64469-762-7
• No. of pages: 294
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Series: Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Slavonic linguistics / literary studies; Comparative Literature, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary essays