Dead Souls - Everyman's Library CLASSICS
Dead Souls - Everyman's Library CLASSICS
hardback | English
Published:
2 September, 2004
hardback | English
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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 humour, and delight in human oddity and error.
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781857152807 |
| ISBN10 | 1857152808 |
| Number Of Pages | 480 |
| Item Weight | 592 g |
| Product Dimensions | 133 x 210 x 31 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Everyman |
| Format | hardback |
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Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky are known for their highly-acclaimed translations of Dostoevsky, Gogol ad Tolstoy. Their translation of The Brothers Karamazov won America's prestigious PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize.