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Dead Souls (Norton Critical Edition) - The Reavey Translation, Backgrounds and Sources, Essays in Criticism (1986)
Front Cover Book Details
Author
Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
George Gibian
Publication Date June 1986
Format Paperback (210 x 132 mm)
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Language English
Plot
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.
Personal Details
Collection Status In Collection
Index 593
Read It Yes
Links Amazon US
Amazon UK
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Product Details
ISBN 0393952924
Cover Price $20.60
Nr of Pages 585
First Edition No
Rare No
Credits
Translator G. Reavey