基本信息出版社：Penguin Classics
页码：512 页
出版日期：2004年12月
ISBN：0140448071
条形码：9780140448078
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Penguin Classics
外文书名：死魂灵

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Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in the provincial town of N', visiting a succession of landowners and making each a strange offer. He proposes to buy the names of dead serfs still registered on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, and to use these souls' as collateral to re-invent himself as a gentleman. In this ebullient masterpiece, Gogol created a grotesque gallery of human types, from the bear-like Sobakevich to the insubstantial fool Manilov, and, above all, the devilish con man Chichikov. Dead Souls, Russia's first major novel, is one of the most unusual works of nineteenth-century fiction and a devastating satire on social hypocrisy.
作者简介 Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852) was born in Ukraine and left for St. Petersburg at the age of nineteen. From 1836 to 1848 he lived mainly in Rome, where he wrote Dead Souls. Robert A. Maguire is professor emeritus of Russian studies at Columbia University. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and several other awards for his studies and published works.
媒体推荐 Vladimir Nabokov
Gogol was a strange creature, but then genius is always strange.

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Gogol was a strange creature, but then genius is always strange. (Vladimir Nabokov)


编辑推荐 Vladimir Nabokov
Gogol was a strange creature, but then genius is always strange.

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Gogol was a strange creature, but then genius is always strange. (Vladimir Nabokov)