Name: Dead Souls (en Inglés)
SKU: 61615820
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Author: Hogarth, D. J. ; Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich
ISBN: 9781545418345

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

Traducido por

D. J. Hogarth

Editorial

Createspace

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

470

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.9x15.2x2.4 cm

Peso

0.62 kg.

ISBN13

9781545418345

Categorías

Rusia
Urss, unión soviética
Antologías: general
Literatura: historia y crítica

Dead Souls (en Inglés)

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (Autor) · D. J. Hogarth (Traducido por) · Createspace · Tapa Blanda

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The story follows the exploits of Chichikov, a middle-aged gentleman of middling social class and means. Chichikov arrives in a small town and turns on the charm to woo key local officials and landowners. He reveals little about his past, or his purpose, as he sets about carrying out his bizarre and mysterious plan to acquire "dead souls."The government would tax the landowners based on how many serfs (or "souls") the landowner owned, determined by the census. Censuses in this period were infrequent, so landowners would often be paying taxes on serfs that were no longer living, thus the "dead souls." It is these dead souls, existing on paper only, that Chichikov seeks to purchase from the landlords in the villages he visits; he merely tells the prospective sellers that he has a use for them, and that the sellers would be better off anyway, since selling them would relieve the present owners of a needless tax burden.Although the townspeople Chichikov comes across are gross caricatures, they are not flat stereotypes by any means. Instead, each is neurotically individual, combining the official failings that Gogol typically satirizes (greed, corruption, paranoia) with a curious set of personal quirks.