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Dead Souls

Dead Souls

Rayfield, Donald
Rayfield, Donald
Gogol, Nikolai

Paperback

Series: New York Review Books Classics

Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 1590173767
ISBN13: 9781590173763
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Jul 17 2012
Pages: 432
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.94 Width: 5.08 Depth: 8.04
Language: English
An NYRB Classics Original

The first of the great Russian novels and one of the indisputable masterpieces of world literature, Dead Souls is the tale of Chichikov, an affably cunning con man who causes consternation in a small Russian town when he shows up out of nowhere proposing to buy title to serfs who, though dead as doornails, are still property on paper. What can he have up his sleeve, the local landowners wonder, even as some rush to unload what isn't of any use to them anyway, while others seek to negotiate the best deal possible, and others yet hold on to their dead for dear life, since if somebody wants what you have then no matter what don't give it away. Chichikov's scheme soon encounters obstacles, but he is never without resource, and as he stumbles forward as best he can, Gogol paints a wonderfully comic picture of Russian life that also serves as a biting satire of a society as corrupt as it is cynical and silly. At once a wild phantasmagoria and a work of exacting realism, Dead Souls is a supremely living work of art that spills over with humor and passion and absurdity.

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