Dead Souls

Book Title Dead Souls
Author Name Nikolai Gogol
Publishing house Vintage
Country – city UK
Date of issue March 25, 1997
Number of pages 432

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Dead Souls

This book has been translated by Dar Radoga

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–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 humor, and delight in human oddity and error.

Dead Souls

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