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Dead Souls

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

Dead Souls is eloquent on some occasions, lyrical on others, and pious and reverent elsewhere. Nicolai Gogol was a master of the spoof. The American students of today are not the only readers who have... been confused by him. Russian literary history records more divergent interpretations of Gogol than perhaps of any other classic.In a new translation of the comic classic of Russian literature, Chichikov, an enigmatic stranger and conniving schemer, buys deceased serfs' names from their landlords' poll tax lists hoping to mortgage them for profit and to reinvent himself as a likeable gentleman.
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  • Počet strán: 464 strán
  • ISBN13:9780140448078
  • Originálny názov: Dead Souls

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Výsmech zaostalosti a naivity aktuálny i dnes

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[...]

Dead Souls is eloquent on some occasions, lyrical on others, and pious and reverent elsewhere. Nicolai Gogol was a master of the spoof. The American students of today are not the only readers who have been confused by him. Russian literary history records more divergent interpretations of Gogol than perhaps of any other classic.

In a new translation of the comic classic of Russian literature, Chichikov, an enigmatic stranger and conniving schemer, buys deceased serfs' names from their landlords' poll tax lists hoping to mortgage them for profit and to reinvent himself as a likeable gentleman.