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Dead Souls
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Verlag: | Re-Image Publishing |
Format: | EPUB |
Veröffentl.: | 16.07.2016 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9783961120062 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 287 |
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Beschreibungen
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 "e;dead souls"e;-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.