Dead souls

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Sinopse

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.

Participantes

Autor: Nikolai Gogol

Tradutor: Robert A. Maguire

Autor

NIKOLAI GOGOL

Nicolai Gógol (1809-1852) nasceu na Ucrânia e faleceu em Moscou (no antigo Império Russo). Apesar de ser um autor realista, seus textos têm muitos traços do que, no início do século XX, seria a estética surrealista. O vigor da obra de Gógol fez com que ele fosse considerado o maior escritor russo da primeira metade do século XIX, tendo iniciado o Realismo na literatura russa e influenciado grandes escritores, como Dostoiévski e Melville.