Dead Souls
Author: Gogol, Nikolai
ISBN: 9780140448078
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2004
Pages: 512
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 23mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
'Gogol was a strange creature, but then genius is always strange' Vladimir Nabokov
Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in the provincial town of 'N', visiting a succession of landowners and making each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, and to use these 'souls' as collateral to re-invent himself as a gentleman. In this ebullient masterpiece, Gogol created a grotesque gallery of human types, from the bear-like Sobakevich to the insubstantial fool Manilov, and, above all, the devilish con man Chichikov. Dead Souls, Russia's first major novel, is one of the most unusual works of nineteenth-century fiction and a devastating satire on social hypocrisy.
ISBN: 9780140448078
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2004
Pages: 512
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 23mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
'Gogol was a strange creature, but then genius is always strange' Vladimir Nabokov
Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in the provincial town of 'N', visiting a succession of landowners and making each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, and to use these 'souls' as collateral to re-invent himself as a gentleman. In this ebullient masterpiece, Gogol created a grotesque gallery of human types, from the bear-like Sobakevich to the insubstantial fool Manilov, and, above all, the devilish con man Chichikov. Dead Souls, Russia's first major novel, is one of the most unusual works of nineteenth-century fiction and a devastating satire on social hypocrisy.
