Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol's "Dead Souls" is produced here in a definitive translation by B.G. Guerney. In his introduction, Renè Wellek opines that "whoever comes to the reading of Gogol's 'Dead Souls' with preconceptions of the nature of the Russian novel based upon reading of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy will be surprised and delighted to discover something very different. Here is a comic epic, a gallery of portraits, a loosely assembled travel story with little psychology, no tragic conflict, no debates concerning God and immortality." Instead, Gogol paints a realistic panorama of Russia in the 1840s, complete with a vivid cast of boorish, fraudulent, and banal characters afflicting the culture of the day. Clearly a classic of Russian literature.
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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (Russian: Николай Васильевич Гоголь; Ukrainian: Микола Васильович Гоголь) (31 March [O.S. 19 March] 1809 – 4 March [O.S. 21 February] 1852) was a Ukrainian-born Russian novelist, humourist, and dramatist He is considered the father of modern Russian realism. His early works, such as Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, were heavily influenced by his Ukrainian upbringing and identity. His more mature writing satirised the corrupt bureaucracy of the Russian Empire, leading to his exile. On his return, he immersed himself in the Orthodox Church. The novels *Taras Bul'ba* (1835; 1842 [revised edition]) and *Dead Souls* (1842), the play *The Inspector-General* (1836, 1842), and the short stories *Diary of a Madman*, *The Nose* and *The Overcoat* (1842) are among his best known works. With their scrupulous and scathing realism, ethical criticism as well as philosophical depth, they remain some of the most important works of world literature.
Dead Souls
by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Gogol's "Dead Souls" is produced here in a definitive translation by B.G. Guerney. In his introduction, Renè Wellek opines that "whoever comes to the reading of Gogol's 'Dead Souls' with preconceptions of the nature of the Russian novel based upon reading of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy will be surprised and delighted to discover something very different. Here is a comic epic, a gallery of portraits, a loosely assembled travel story with little psychology, no tragic conflict, no debates concerning God and immortality." Instead, Gogol paints a realistic panorama of Russia in the 1840s, complete with a vivid cast of boorish, fraudulent, and banal characters afflicting the culture of the day. Clearly a classic of Russian literature.
Literature & FictionClassics
RELEASED2000
PUBLISHERInternational Thomson Publishing
LENGTH304
LANGUAGEEN
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (Russian: Николай Васильевич Гоголь; Ukrainian: Микола Васильович Гоголь) (31 March [O.S. 19 March] 1809 – 4 March [O.S. 21 February] 1852) was a Ukrainian-born Russian novelist, humourist, and dramatist He is considered the father of modern Russian realism. His early works, such as Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, were heavily influenced by his Ukrainian upbringing and identity. His more mature writing satirised the corrupt bureaucracy of the Russian Empire, leading to his exile. On his return, he immersed himself in the Orthodox Church. The novels *Taras Bul'ba* (1835; 1842 [revised edition]) and *Dead Souls* (1842), the play *The Inspector-General* (1836, 1842), and the short stories *Diary of a Madman*, *The Nose* and *The Overcoat* (1842) are among his best known works. With their scrupulous and scathing realism, ethical criticism as well as philosophical depth, they remain some of the most important works of world literature.
