Dead Souls

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Nikolai Gogol

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One of the greatest masterpieces of Russian literature, Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls, published in 1842, is at one level a comic satire on the failings of bureaucracy and serfdom. The real meaning of the story, however, concerns the moral and spiritual ailments of a society which replaces the worship of God with the worship of gold. Chichikov, the story's leading character, conducts a paper trade in dead souls i.e., serfs who still remain on the register although they have died. Gogol's achievement is to turn this macabre activity and the gloomy underworld in which it takes place into occasions for biting comedy.

Author Biography:

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky are known for their highly-acclaimed translations of Dostoevsky, Gogol ad Tolstoy. Their translation of The Brothers Karamazov won America's prestigious PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize.

Release date Australia

September 2nd, 2004

Author

Nikolai Gogol

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Country of Publication

United Kingdom

Imprint

Everyman's Library

Pages

480

Publisher

Everyman

Dimensions

135x212x31

ISBN-13

9781857152807

Product ID

1637996

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