Description

Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls hasbeen recognized as a very practical face of provincial Russian life and like a wonderfully high story; like a paean to the Russian nature and like a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality, vulgarity, and pomp. As Gogol's clever antihero, Chichikov, combs the rear region wheeling and dealing for "dead people"--departed serfs who nevertheless signify cash to anyone sharp enough to trade-in them--we're presented into a Dickensian cast of peasants, landowners, and conniving small officers, handful of whom may avoid the sexy illogic of Chichikov's proposal. This vibrant, idiomatic Language edition from the award winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky makes available the entire degree of the bookis lyricism, sulphurous laughter, and enjoy human oddity and mistake.