Dead Souls: New Translation (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Serie
Evergreens
Antal sidor
368
Utgivningsdatum
2017-05-25
Förlag
Alma Books Ltd
Översättare
Donald Rayfield
Originalspråk
Ryska
Dimensioner
198 x 129 x 23 mm
Vikt
298 g
ISBN
9781847496287

Dead Souls: New Translation

Häftad,  Engelska, 2017-05-25
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A mysterious stranger named Chichikov arrives in a small provincial Russian town and proceeds to visit a succession of landowners, making each of them an unusual and somewhat macabre proposition. He offers to buy the rights to the dead serfs who are still registered on the landowner's estate, thus reducing their liability for taxes. It is not clear what Chichikov's intentions are with the dead serfs he is purchasing, and despite his attempts to ingratiate himself, his strange behaviour arouses the suspicions of everyone in the town. A biting satire of social pretensions and pomposity, Dead Souls has been revered since its original publication in 1842 as one of the funniest and most brilliant novels of nineteenth-century Russia. Its unflinching and remorseless depiction of venality in Russian society is a lasting tribute to Gogol's comic genius.

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One of the leading figures in nineteenth-century Russian literature, Nikolai Gogol (1809-52) is best known for his satirical masterpiece, Dead Souls, and humorous plays and short stories such as The Government Inspector and The Overcoat, written in a highly original and trenchant style.