Dead Souls (classics illustrated) - Nikolai Gogol - Libros -  - 9798588148283 - 29 de diciembre de 2020
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Dead Souls (classics illustrated)

Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality, vulgarity, and pomp. 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. This lively, idiomatic English version by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky makes accessible the full extent of the novel's lyricism, sulphurous humor, and delight in human oddity and error.

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Publicado 29 de diciembre de 2020
ISBN13 9798588148283
Páginas 600
Dimensiones 140 × 216 × 31 mm   ·   684 g
Lengua Inglés  

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