Dead Souls

Informationen zum Autor Nikolai Gogol Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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;

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Nikolai Gogol

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• Authors: N. Gogol, Nikolai Gogol
• Assisted by: Pevear Richard (Introduction), Richard Pevear (Translation), Pevear Richard (Translation), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translation), Volokhonsky Larissa (Translation)
• Publisher: Everyman's Library UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.09.2004
• EAN: 9781857152807
• ISBN: 978-1-85715-280-7
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 212 mm x 31 mm
• Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Russia, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, FICTION / Satire, Fiction in translation, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Satirical fiction and parodies, Early 19th century c 1800 to c 1850, Russian tsarist empire, FICTION / World Literature / Europe (General), FICTION / World Literature / Russia / 19th Century