· Dead Souls, by Nikolai Gogol, is part of the Barnes Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted www.doorway.ru are some of the remarkable features of Barnes Noble Classics. New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and ISBN Introduction The thought of writing Dead Souls was taken by Gogol from my uncle Pivinsky. Pivinsky had a small estate, some thirty peasant souls [that is, adult male serfs], and five children. Life could not be rich, and so the Pivinskys lived by distilling vodka. Dead Souls the novel by Gogol is a masterpiece of the theater of the absurd. Early Russian critics, Belinsky in particular, mistakenly considered the novel to be a piece of naturalistic realism, when in fact it is a world based in a depiction its characters of what is called poshlost' (self satisfied mediocrity where the acme of happiness is /5().
Dead Souls is a book by Nikolai Gogol, chronicling the travels and adventures of Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov and the people whom he encounters. Chichikov combs the back country, looking for 'dead souls'- deceased serfs who still represent money to anyone sharp enough to trade in them. The reader is introduced to a Dickensian cast of peasants. Nikolai Gogol's novel, ~'Dead Souls,~' analyzes the ways in which the main character's travels showcase the nobility's arrogant attitude and expectations as well as the deception and corruption. Apparently Dead Souls was intended to be a trilogy, a nineteenth century Russian take on Dante's Divine Comedy. Unfortunately Gogol went through a bit of a religious phase before his death, and so burnt the second part before it was published and died before writing the third part.
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