Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol (Robert A. Maguire)
Penguin Books • 2004

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 registere...d on the census, saving their owners from paying tax on them, and to use these 'dead souls' as collateral to re-invent himself as a aristocrat.
Viac

Nikolaj Vasilievič Gogoľ patrí medzi autorov realizmu, ktorí zadefinovali nové videnie spoločnosti. Objektivita vo vnímaní ľudí a jednotlivých vrstiev sa uňho mieša s trefnou satirou, a tak nečudo, že sa jeho tvorba dočkala označenia "smiech cez slzy". Umne dokázal skĺbiť poklesky človeka spojené s využívaním dier nedostatočného systému. V istom zmysle tak čitateľ obdivuje šikovnosť[...]

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 'dead souls' as collateral to re-invent himself as a aristocrat.

Mohlo by sa vám páčiť