Dead Souls (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
478
Utgivningsdatum
1971-04-01
Upplaga
New ed
Förlag
WW Norton & Co
Översättare
George Reavey
Originalspråk
Russian
Medarbetare
Gibian, George (introd.)
Illustratör/Fotograf
George Gibian
Illustrationer
black & white illustrations
Dimensioner
220 x 140 x 30 mm
Vikt
460 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
4:B&W 5 x 8 in or 203 x 127 mm Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Lam
ISBN
9780393006001

Dead Souls

Häftad,  Engelska, 1971-04-01
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A few factual points ought to be explained to the reader, even though the novel itself eventually suffices to clarify some of them. First, the title of the book. Among Russian serf-owning gentry, the idiomatic way to assess someones wealth was to express it in terms of the number of souls he ownedthat is, male, adult serfs. Taxes on serfs had to be paid by the owner until the next census or registration date even if they may have died in the meantime. Gogols dead souls, in addition to this literal reference to serfs who had died since the last registration date for serfs, are also a metaphor for the dead moral and spiritual sensibilities of the many inhabitants of Gogols zoo. This title ran into trouble with Gogols censors, who held the ridiculous suspicion that the title might be a blasphemous attack on the immortality of the human soul. Gogol therefore added the title Chichikovs Adventures.
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Nikolai Gogol was born on March 20, 1809, in the Ukrainian town of Sorochyntsi, on the periphery of the Russian Empire. He attended the Nizhyn School of Higher Art, now Nizhyn Gogol State University, where he first began writing. On leaving school in 1828, Gogol moved to St. Petersburg to pursue his literary ambitions. His first collection of short stories, Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, was published in 1831 to general acclaim. While his early stories were written in the tradition of Ukrainian folklore, his later stories, known as the Petersburg tales, established his reputation as a great surrealist and satirist of life under the Russian Empire. In his later years, Gogol lived abroad throughout Europe, particularly Italy, where he developed a great appreciation for Rome, and wrote the first part of his unfinished masterpiece, Dead Souls. He died in Moscow, Russia, on February 21, 1852. George Gibian was Goldwin Smith Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. His honors include Fulbright, Guggenheim, American Philosophical Society, and Rockefeller Foundation fellowships. He was the author of The Man in the Black Coat: Russias Lost Literature of the Absurd, The Interval of Freedom: Russian Literature During the Thaw, and Tolstoj and Shakespeare. He was the editor of the Norton Critical Editions of Tolstoys Anna Karenina and War and Peace, and Gogols Dead Souls, and of the Viking Penguin Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader. Professor Gibians articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, the Christian Science Monitor, and Newsday, among others.