Dead Souls
Auteur: Nikolai Gogol
Nombre de pages: 363 pages
ISBN: 9391242642, 9789391242640
Edition: Amaryllis - an imprint of Manjul Publishing House
Date de publication: Amaryllis - an imprint of Manjul Publishing House
Description: “However stupid a fool’s words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.”Dead Souls chronicles the exploits of the mysterious Chichikov, a middle-class gentleman who arrives at a small town and visits some landowners, coming to them with a curious offer: he wanted to purchase the names of their “dead souls” – serfs who are dead but still on the census. They are useless to the landowners, but Chichikov wants them for another purpose which he does not reveal. The novel follows Chichikov as he carries out his unique task and struggles to convince the suspicious landowners to give up their dead souls.