Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ

Nikolái Vasílievich Gógol

This 19th-century author created some of the most colorful and haunting fiction of his century (Kirkus Reviews). This sampling by the comic genius includes The Nose and the celebrated novella Taras Bulba. Includes a new Afterword. Reissue.

Diary of a Madman, and Other Stories

Dead Souls, is a novel by Nikolai Gogol, and widely regarded as an exemplar of 19th-century Russian literature. The novel chronicles the travels and adventures of Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov and the people whom he encounters. These people typify the Russian middle-class of the time. Gogol himself saw his work as an "epic poem in prose", and within the book characterised it as a "novel in verse". Despite supposedly completing the trilogy's second part, Gogol destroyed it shortly before his death. Although the novel ends in mid-sentence (like Sterne's Sentimental Journey), it is regarded by some as complete in the extant form.

Dead Souls

Pável Ivánovich Chíchikov, un hombre de mediana edad que se presenta a sí mismo como “consejero colegiado y terrateniente”, llega de pronto a una provincia rusa para proponer un misterioso negocio a los hacendados de los alrededores: la compra de los campesinos fallecidos que no han sido borrados del censo oficial. ¿Cuál será el propósito del protagonista al adquirir estas almas muertas? Un clásico de la literatura rusa del siglo XIX que hace una crítica mordaz sobre la sociedad corrupta de su época. Un clásico de la literatura rusa del siglo xix que critica con mordacidad la sociedad corrupta de su época.

Nikolái Vasílievich Gógol

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