Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol
Dead Souls is a socially critical black comedy. Set in Russia before the emancipation of serfs in 1861, the "dead souls" are dead serfs still being counted by landowners as property, as well as referring to the landowners' morality. Through surreal and often dark comedy, Gogol criticizes Russian society after the Napoleonic Wars. He intended to also offer solutions to the problems he satirized, but died before he ever completed the second part of what was intended to be a trilogy. The work famously ends mid-sentence.
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Год:
2005
Издание:
2
Издательство:
Barnes & Noble Classics
Язык:
english
Страницы:
432
ISBN 10:
1593080921
ISBN 13:
9781593080921
Серия:
Barnes & Noble Classics
Файл:
EPUB, 495 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2005