ISBN 9780679776444 | 0679776443 Textbooks - "Dead Souls A Novel Vintage Classics" by Nikolai Gogol Nikolai Gogol TranslatorRichard Pevear TranslatorLarissa Volokhonsky

Authors: Nikolai Gogol - Nikolai Gogol; Translator-Richard Pevear; Translator-Larissa Volokhonsky
ISBN 10: 0679776443
ISBN 13: 9780679776444
Release: March 25, 1997
Format: Paperback (432 pages)
List Price: $15.95
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Tags: Literature & Fiction, Contemporary,

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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 humor, and delight in human oddity and error.

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Dead Souls: A Novel (Vintage Classics)