Dead Souls: A Poem (Oxford World's Classics) Paperback – August 3, by Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (Author), Christopher English (Translator), Robert A. /5(14). Dead Souls is a novel by Nikolai Gogol, first published in , and widely regarded as an exemplar of 19th-century Russian literature. The purpose of the novel was to demonstrate the flaws and faults of the Russian mentality and character.4/5(K). 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/5().
Dead Souls is a book by Nikolai Gogol, chronicling the travels and adventures of Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov and the people whom he encounters. Chichikov combs the back country, looking for 'dead souls'- deceased serfs who still represent money to anyone sharp enough to trade in them. The reader is introduced to a Dickensian cast of peasants. Gogol's work is inextricably tied to his historical context, specifically midth century Russian society. In the decades between the Napoleonic Wars of and to the Peasant Emancipation of , Russian intellectuals debated the country's destiny and relationship to the West. The plot of Dead Souls rests on the social relationship. Transcript of episode, with discussion questions at the end: Vladimir Nabokov's Criticism of Dead Souls: the Poshlust of Chichikov and the landowners and Gogol's groundbreaking style. In the brilliant, multilingual Russian-born author and professor Vladimir Nabokov published a short landmark criticism on the works and life of Nikolai Gogol.
Dead Souls is a novel by Nikolai Gogol, first published in , and widely regarded as an exemplar of 19th-century Russian literature. The novel chronicles the travels and adventures of Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov and the people whom he encounters. These people typify the Russian middle-class of the time. Gogol himself saw his work as an "epic poem in prose", and within the book characterised it as a "novel in verse". Despite supposedly completing the trilogy's second part, Gogol destroyed it sho. Gogol, Nikolai Vasilevich, Translator: Hogarth, D. J. Uniform Title: Mertvye dushi. English Title: Dead Souls Language: English: LoC Class: PG: Language and Literatures: Slavic (including Russian), Languages and Literature: Subject: Satire Subject: Humorous stories Subject: Russia -- Social life and customs -- -- Fiction Subject. This item: Dead Souls: A Poem (Oxford World's Classics) by Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol Paperback. $ Only 17 left in stock (more on the way). Ships from and sold by bltadwin.ru FREE Shipping on orders over $ Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse (Oxford World's Classics) by Alexander Pushkin Paperback. $
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