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Dead Souls [MP3 CD] [Jan 01, 2017] Nikolai Vasilievich GOGOL (1809 - 1852)

by Nikolai Vasilievich GOGOL (1809 - 1852)

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IDB Productions, 2017-01-01. MP3 CD. New. The first section of the story was purposed to portray a present-day Inferno of the Divine Comedy. Nikolai reveals to everyone a vast representation of the indisposed social structure in Russia after the war of 1812. Dead Souls is critiqued as partly illogical and farcical. The short story emphasizes on providing ways out of a certain predicament. This comprehensive stratagem was fully forsaken after Nikolai died. This story was unfinished and the strongest subplot is never forgotten. </br></br>According to Andrey Bely, D. S. Mirsky, Vladimir Nabokov, and other modernist critics precluded the generally so-called picture of Dead Souls as an activist or sardonic writing. Vladimir considered the scenario of Dead Souls as inconsequential and Nikolai as a magnificent playwright whose oeuvres lined the unreasonable and whose literary class mixed a first-rate evocative dominance with a disdain for dramatized platitudes. As a matter of fact, Chichikov exhibits an ultimate out of the box ethical twaddle, and the full notion of trading the lifeless is, to Vladimir, ludicrous; thence, the story takes place in a much inappropriate setting to some extent of the liberal, activist or Christian interpretation of the book. </br></br>Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was a Russian playwright of Ukrainian descent. Though Nikolai was regarded by his comrades as a noteworthy fellow of the natural school of Russian literary pragmatism, connoisseurs have observed in his short story a basically vehement susceptibility, with stresses of unreal and the incongruous, including The Nose, Viy, The Overcoat, Nevsky Prospekt. His first novels, as Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, were impelled by his Ukrainian ancestry, Ukrainian tradition and urban myths. His succeeding works derided civil exploitation in the Russian Empire - The Government Inspector, Dead Souls.

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Dead Souls is a socially critical black comedy. Set in Russia before the emancipation of serfs in 1861, the "dead souls" are dead serfs still being counted by landowners as property, as well as referring to the landowners' morality. Through surreal and often dark comedy, Gogol criticizes Russian society after the Napoleonic Wars. He intended to also offer solutions to the problems he satirized, but died before he ever completed the second part of what was intended to be a trilogy. The work famously ends mid-sentence.

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Dead Souls [MP3 CD] [Jan 01, 2017] Nikolai Vasilievich GOGOL (1809 - 1852)
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Nikolai Vasilievich GOGOL (1809 - 1852)
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