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Dead Souls (Russian: Мёртвые души Myórtvyye dúshi, pre-reform spelling: Мертвыя души) is a novel by Nikolai Gogol, first published in 1842, and widely regarded as an exemplar of 19th-century Russian literature.
- Nikolai Gogol
- 1842
Ostensibly a story about a man traveling the Russian countryside inexplicably buying the souls of dead serfs, Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls is part commentary on middle class morality, part picaresque account of the main character's travels and part satire.
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Some consider the author a realist who has drawn with meticulous detail a picture of Russia; others, Merejkovsky among them, see in him a great symbolist; the very title Dead Souls is taken to describe the living of Russia as well as its dead.
Dead Souls, novel by Nikolay Gogol, published in Russian as Myortvye dushi in 1842. This picaresque work, considered one of the world’s finest satires, traces the adventures of the landless social-climbing Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov, a dismissed civil servant out to seek his fortune.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Dead Souls is a novel by Gogol that depicts the absurdities and corruption of the Russian nobility through the adventures of a con artist, Chichikov. He tries to buy peasants who are only alive on paper, but faces many obstacles and dangers along the way.
Oct 1, 1997 · Dead Souls Credits: John Bickers, and David Widger Language: English: LoC Class: PG: Language and Literatures: Slavic (including Russian), Languages and Literature: Subject: Satire Subject: Humorous stories Subject: Russia -- Social life and customs -- 1533-1917 -- Fiction Subject: Swindlers and swindling -- Russia -- Fiction ...
Jul 17, 2012 · 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...
