Dead Souls

A Novel

von Nikolai Gogol

434 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• ISBN: 9780679776444
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.03.1997
• Größe: 202 x 133 mm
• Verlag: Random House
• Übersetzung: Larissa Volokhonsky, Richard Pevear