Dead Souls -

Nikolai Gogol

Everyman's Library

2004

488 páginas

16h 16m

ISBN-13: 9781400043194

Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Souls is the great comic masterpiece of Russian literature–a satirical and splendidly exaggerated epic of life in the benighted provinces.

Gogol hoped to show the world “the untold riches of the Russian soul” in this 1842 novel, which he populated with a Dickensian swarm of characters: rogues and scoundrels, landowners and serfs, conniving petty officials–all of them both utterly lifelike and alarmingly larger than life. Setting everything in motion is the wily antihero, Chichikov, the trafficker in “dead souls”–deceased serfs who still represent profit to those clever enough to trade in them.

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5 (Perfeito)

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Pavel Chichikov tries to make easy money but then finds it difficult throughout the course.
Very interesting book and worth reading!