Παρουσίαση
Russia in the 1840s. There is a stranger in town, and he is behaving oddly. The unctuous Pavel Chichikov goes around the local estates buying up "dead souls".These are the papers relating to serfs who have died since the last census, but who remain on the record and still attract a tax demand. Ghichikov is willing to relieve their owners of the tax burden by buying the titles for a song. What he does not say is that he then proposes to take out a huge mortgage against these fictitious citizens and buy himself a nice estate in Eastern Russia.
Will he get away with it? Who will rumble him? Does this narrative contain a deeper message about Russia itself or the spiritual health of humanity? There is much interest and some suspense in considering these issues, but the real pleasure of this story lies elsewhere. It is an enjoyable comic romp through a retarded part of a backward country, a picaresque series of grotesque portraits, situations and conversations described with Gogolian humour based mainly on hyperbole. This is, quite simply, the funniest book in the Russian language before the twentieth century. (From the publisher)
Περιεχόμενα
INTRODUCTIONFURTHER READING
DEAD SOULS
PART ONE
The Capital of the Government
The Manilov Family
Madame Korobochkina
Nozdrev
Sobakevitch
Pliushkin
The Tribunals and the Police
The Governor's Ball
The Emotions of a Small Town
The Result is Our Hero's Flight
Departure on Fresh Enterprises
PART TWO
Tentyotnikov; or, the Sorrows of Love
An Ancient Relic of 1812
Two Persons who are Original, Each in his Own Fashion
Khlobuyov - Luxury and Indigence - Chichikov on the Way to Become a Landed Proprietor
Two Wills - A Fair - A Lawyer - A Holy Man - Arrest and Delivery
Miseries and Grandeurs of Chichikov - His
Opinions in the Lap of Fortune
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