Dead souls

R$ 156,90

Sinopse

Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality, vulgarity, and pomp. As Gogol's wily antihero, Chichikov, combs the back country wheeling and dealing for "dead souls"--deceased serfs who still represent money to anyone sharp enough to trade in them--we are introduced to a Dickensian cast of peasants, landowners, and conniving petty officials, few of whom can resist the seductive illogic of Chichikov's proposition. This lively, idiomatic English version by the award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky makes accessible the full extent of the novel's lyricism, sulphurous humour, and delight in human oddity and error.

Participantes

Autor: Nikolai Gogol

Tradutor: Richard Pevear | Larissa Volokhonsky

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.