Dead Souls: Introduction by Richard Pevear Hardcover - 2004
by Nikolai Gogol; Richard Pevear (Translator); Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
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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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- Title Dead Souls: Introduction by Richard Pevear
- Author Nikolai Gogol; Richard Pevear (Translator); Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 488
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Everyman's Library, New York, NY
- Date 2004-09-21
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9781400043194 / 1400043190
- Weight 1.32 lbs (0.60 kg)
- Dimensions 8.18 x 5.3 x 1.25 in (20.78 x 13.46 x 3.18 cm)
- Reading level 1080
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Russian
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004050615
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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