An edition of Мертвые души
(1842)
Dead souls
a poem
by Николай Васильевич Гоголь
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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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Die toten Seelen: Roman
2008-05, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag
Taschenbuch
in German
- 9. Auflage
3423126078 9783423126076
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Dead souls: the Reavey translation, backgrounds and sources, essays in criticism
1985, W.W. Norton
in English
0393952924 9780393952926
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Translation of Mertvye dushi.
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