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Gogol Nikolai 2016-06-21Original language:English 9.00 x .69 x 6.00l, .91 #File Name: 1534806385306 pagesDead Souls | File size: 73.Mb
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. one of the best examples of Russian literatureBy snoozerClassic story, one of the best examples of Russian literature, multilayered, funny, smart.4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Greatly doneBy N. YablonkoGreat classic book. Actually, finally managed to read it till the end, mostly because of how it's easy to read and navigate. Definitely recommend this Kindle Edition and publisher.
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.
Dead Souls is unanimously considered one of the greatest novels in the Russian language for its characterizations, satiric humor, and style. The plot is not complex a scheme to buy, from landlords, serfs who have died since the last census, in order to perpetrate the hero s own real-estate deal in eastern Russia. The length of the novel is accounted for by numerous digressions adding up to a rich picture of provincial Russia. Whether Gogol s fiction is reality or fantasy, a topic much debated, he uses characterization, extravagant imagery, and hyperbolic language to color intensely his work. --Masterpieces of World LiteratureConsidered one of the world s finest satires, this picaresque work traces the adventures of the social-climbing Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov, a dismissed civil servant out to seek his fortune. It is admired not only for its enduring comic portraits but also for its sense of moral purpose. --Merriam Webster s Encyclopedia of LiteratureOne of the greatest novels in world literature.... --Chambers Biographical DictionaryAbout the AuthorNikolai Vasilievich Gogol , dramatist, novelist and short story writer of Ukrainian ethnicity. Russian and Ukrainian scholars debate whether or not Gogol was of their respective nationalities. Considered by his contemporaries one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary realism, later critics have found in Gogol's work a fundamentally romantic sensibility, with strains of Surrealism and the grotesque ("The Nose", "Viy", "The Overcoat," "Nevsky Prospekt"). His early works, such as Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, were influenced by his Ukrainian upbringing, Ukrainian culture and folklore. His later writing satirised political corruption in the Russian Empire (The Government Inspector, Dead Souls), leading to his eventual exile. The novel Taras Bulba (1835) and the play Marriage (1842), along with the short stories "Diary of a Madman", "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich", "The Portrait" and "The Carriage", round out the tally of his best-known works.From AudioFileConsidered one of the great novels in the Russian canon, this book is a symbolic snapshot of nineteenth-century Russian life, and an intense literary experience. The story revolves around Chichikov, a man who comes to a Russian town to buy the souls of dead peasants who are still listed on the census, setting in motion a story of greed and distrust. Narrator Tom Weiner has a deep, robust, nasally tinged voice that captures the tone of the book at the beginning, but he doesn't vary his pitch and characters enough to keep the work moving. He also reads a bit too quickly; slowing down would allow us to more easily digest the philosophical aspects of the story. R.I.G. copy; AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine
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