Gogol Nikolai
Gogol Nikolai - Dead Souls A Poem - Paperback
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Description: Rus! Russ! . Everything within you is open desolate and flat; your squat towns barely protrude above the level of your wide plains marking them like little dots like specks; here is nothing to entice and fascinate the onlooker's gaze. Yet whence this unfathomable uncanny force that draws me to you? Although Dead Souls (1842) was largely composed by Gogol during self - imposed exile in Italy in the late 1830s his last work remains to this day the most essentially Russian of all the great novels in Russian literature. As we follow its hero Chichikov a dismissed civil servant turned unscrupulous confidence man about the Russian countryside in pursuit of his shady enterprise there unfolds before us a gallery of characters worthy in comic range of Chaucer Rabelais Fielding and Sterne. With its rich and ebullient language ironic twists and startling juxtapositions Dead Souls stands as one of the most dazzling and poetic masterpieces of the nineteenth century. This brilliant new translation by Christopher English is complemented by a superb introductory essay by the pre - eminent Gogol scholar Robert Maguire. About THE Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up - to - date bibliographies for further study and much more.
Title: Dead Souls A Poem
Author(s): Gogol Nikolai
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780199554669
Pages: 496 Pages, 1 Map
Publication Date: 8/3/2009
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Category: Classic Fiction
Description: Rus! Russ! . Everything within you is open desolate and flat; your squat towns barely protrude above the level of your wide plains marking them like little dots like specks; here is nothing to entice and fascinate the onlooker's gaze. Yet whence this unfathomable uncanny force that draws me to you? Although Dead Souls (1842) was largely composed by Gogol during self - imposed exile in Italy in the late 1830s his last work remains to this day the most essentially Russian of all the great novels in Russian literature. As we follow its hero Chichikov a dismissed civil servant turned unscrupulous confidence man about the Russian countryside in pursuit of his shady enterprise there unfolds before us a gallery of characters worthy in comic range of Chaucer Rabelais Fielding and Sterne. With its rich and ebullient language ironic twists and startling juxtapositions Dead Souls stands as one of the most dazzling and poetic masterpieces of the nineteenth century. This brilliant new translation by Christopher English is complemented by a superb introductory essay by the pre - eminent Gogol scholar Robert Maguire. About THE Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up - to - date bibliographies for further study and much more.
Title: Dead Souls A Poem
Author(s): Gogol Nikolai
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780199554669
Pages: 496 Pages, 1 Map
Publication Date: 8/3/2009
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Category: Classic Fiction
