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English
Vintage Books
25 March 1997
Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality, vulgarity, and pomp. As Gogol's wily antihero, Chichikov, combs the back country wheeling and dealing for ""dead souls""--deceased serfs who still represent money to anyone sharp enough to trade in them--we are introduced to a Dickensian cast of peasants, landowners, and conniving petty officials, few of whom can resist the seductive illogic of Chichikov's proposition. This lively, idiomatic English version by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky makes accessible the full extent of the novel's lyricism, sulphurous humor, and delight in human oddity and error.
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Translated by:   ,
Imprint:   Vintage Books
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 202mm,  Width: 132mm,  Spine: 23mm
Weight:   352g
ISBN:   9780679776444
ISBN 10:   0679776443
Series:   Vintage Classics
Pages:   402
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for Dead Souls: A Novel

Praise for previous translations by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, winners of the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize <p> The Brothers Karamazov<br> One finally gets the musical whole of Dostoevsky's original. - New York Times Book Review <br> It may well be that Dostoevsky's [world], with all its resourceful energies of life and language, is only now-and through the medium of [this] new translation-beginning to come home to the English-speaking reader. - New York Review of Books<br> <br> Crime and Punishment<br> The best [translation] currently available...An especially faithful re-creation...with a coiled-spring kinetic energy... Don't miss it. - Washington Post Book World <br> Reaches as close to Dostoevsky's Russian as is possible in English...The original's force and frightening immediacy is captured...The Pevear and Volokhonsky translation will become the standard version. - Chicago Tribune<br> <br> Demons<br> <br> The merit in this edition ofw


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