| Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, Fiction, Classics Contributor(s): Gogol, Nikolai Vasil'evich (Author) |
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ISBN: 1592247199 ISBN-13: 9781592247196 Publisher: Wildside Press OUR PRICE: $46.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2003 Annotation: With its rich and ebullient language, ironic twists and startling juxtapositions, "Dead Souls" (1842) stands as one of the most dazzling and poetic masterpieces of the 19th century. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 1.32" H x 6.38" W x 9.3" (1.73 lbs) 396 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: DEAD SOULS, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, "the Russian novel," not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpieces that have come since have grown out of it, like the limbs of a single tree. Dostoevsky goes so far as to bestow this tribute upon an earlier work by the same author, a short story entitled "The Cloak"; this idea has been wittily expressed by another compatriot, who says: "We have all issued out of Gogol's Cloak." |
Contributor Bio(s): Gogol, Nikolai V.: - "Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809 - 1852) was a Russian dramatist, novelist and short story writer of Ukrainian ethnicity. Some Russian and Ukrainian scholars debate whether Gogol must be considered Russian or Ukrainian author, accusing each other of "appropriating" the writer. His early works, such as Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, were influenced by his Ukrainian upbringing, Ukrainian culture and folklore. His later writing satirized political corruption in the Russian Empire (The Government Inspector, Dead Souls). The novel Taras Bulba (1835) and the play Marriage (1842), along with the short stories "Diary of a Madman," "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich," "The Portrait" and "The Carriage," round out the tally of his best-known works." |