Adding My First Reading of the 1842 Novel Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

 

I love this cover

I know that I have a lot going on in my reading life, but I adore the great works. I love having multiple novels going at a time, and why not begin to tackle this LONG time TBR novel by Gogal.

Book Summary:

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 humor, and delight in human oddity and error.

I am so excited to begin this novel. 

The week before Easter, I don't watch tv shows or movies, so I dive more deeply into my books. We have a few extreme medical appointments this week, so I will be reading on the go as well.

Happy deep classic Russian reading my friends ☕️