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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... Read Full Overview

One of the most unusual works of nineteenth-century fiction and a devastating satire on social hypocrisy

Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls, a comic masterpiece about a mysterious con man and his grotesque victims, is one of the major works of Russian literature. It was translated into English in 1942 by Bernard Guilbert Guerney; the translation was hailed by Vladimir Nabokov... Read Full Overview

Almas muertas es una obra maestra del siglo XIX de la literatura rusa, escrita por Nikol i G gol y publicada en 1842. G gol la defini como un poema pico en prosa. Tiene ciertas similitudes con El Quijote pues el protagonista Ch chikov junto con su cochero y un criado emprenden... Read Full Overview

Gogol's tale of a dismissed civil servant turned unscrupulous confidence man is the most essentially Russian of all the great novels in Russian literature. With its rich and ebullient language, ironic twists, and cast of comedic characters, Dead Souls (1842) stands as one of... Read Full Overview

?Mertvye dushi? - odno iz samyh masshtabnyh i znachimyh proizvedenij russkoj literatury. Puteshestvie gospodina Chichikova po Rossii s cel'ju pokupki ?mertvyh dush? - jeto v pervuju ochered' masshtabnoe issledovanie na vopros, volnovavshij russkih ljudej vo vse vremena: ?Rus',... Read Full Overview

Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is one of the most celebrated and enigmatic works of Russian literature. Blending satire, social commentary, and absurdist humor, the novel paints a vivid picture of mid-19th-century Russia, exposing the greed, corruption,... Read Full Overview

"Backgrounds" contains not only Gogol's correspondence relevant to the novel but also the four formal letters that set forth his views on the work. The editor has also included a useful chronology of Gogol's life and an invaluable table of ranks in czarist Russia. A wide range... Read Full Overview

Dead Souls charts the nefarious dealings of Chichikov, a member of the middle aristocracy in a time when serfs were considered the property of landowners, who could buy, sell, or mortgage them. Chichikov concocts a scheme to purchase ownership of deceased male serfs in order... Read Full Overview

Although largely composed by Gogol during self-imposed exile in Italy in the late 1830s, this work remains perhaps the most essentially Russian of novels. The reader follows Chichikov, a dismissed civil servant turned confidence man, through the countryside in pursuit of his... Read Full Overview

"Backgrounds" contains not only Gogol's correspondence relevant to the novel but also the four formal letters that set forth his views on the work.

The editor has also included a useful chronology of Gogol's life and an invaluable table of ranks in czarist Russia.

A... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

Mrtve duse su nedovrseni roman Nikolaja Vasiljeviča Gogolja, remek-delo ruske knjizevnosti. Objavljen je 1842. godine, a uz pomoc njega je Gogolj postavio temelje u knjizevnosti ruskog realizma. Mrtve duse su poema sastavljena od tri dela, s tim da je u drugom delu ostalo... Read Full Overview

First published in 1842, "Dead Souls" is the story of Chichikov, a young middle-class gentleman who comes to a small town in Russia with a dubious plan to improve his wealth and position in life. He begins by spending beyond his means on the premise that he can impress the... Read Full Overview