Dead Souls (9781857152807)

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 humour, and delight in human oddity and error.

Product details

• Format Hardback | 480 pages
• Dimensions 135 x 212 x 31mm | 589g
• Publication date 02 Sep 2004
• Publisher Everyman
• Imprint Everyman's Library
• Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
• Language English
• Illustrations note 0
• ISBN10 1857152808
• ISBN13 9781857152807
• Bestsellers rank 74,651

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