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基本信息
·出版社：W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
·页码：585 页码
·出版日：1985年
·ISBN：0393952924
·条码：9780393952926
·版次：1985-01-01
·装帧：平装
·开本：32开 32开
内容简介
Book Description
Few literary works have been so variously interpreted as Nikolai Gogol's enduring comic masterpiece,Dead Souls. The text of the work is the acclaimed George Reavey translation, which has been fully annotated.
"Backgrounds and Sources" contains not only Gogol's correspondence relevant to the novel, but also the four formal "Letters" that set forth his views on the work. The editor has also included a useful chronology of Gogol's life and an invaluable table of ranks in czarist Russia.
"Essays in Criticism" reprints fourteen essays, including Robert Maguire's general overview of Gogol criticism; two nineteenth-century Russian appraisals; Donald Fanger's essay and a broad spectrum of twentieth-century Russian critical opinion; and essays by Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson, among others. The Russian essays have been translated for this Nortan Critical Edition.
A Selected Bibliography is also included.
About the Series: Each Norton Critical Edition includes an authoritative text, contextual and source materials, and a wide range of interpretations - from contemporary perspectives to the most current critical theory - as well as a bibliography and, in many cases, a chronology of the author's life and work.
The Editor: Geoge Gibian was Goldwin Smith Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. He recived his Ph.D. from Harvard and taught at Smith College, Amherst, and Berkeley. He traveled and studied in the Soviet Union and received a Senior Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1985 he was Rockefeller Foundation Scholar. Among his publications areTolstoy and Shakespeare; The Interval of Freedom; Soviet Russian Literature During the Thaw; The Man in the Black Coat; Russia's Lost Literature of the Absurd; The Poems of Jaroslav Seifert;and Norton Critical Editions ofAnna Karenina, War and Peace,andCrime and Punishment.
Book Dimension
length: (cm)21.1 width:(cm)12.8
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A socially adept newcomer fluidly inserts himself into an unnamed Russian town, conquering first the drinkers, then the dignitaries. All find him amiable, estimable, agreeable. But what exactly is Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov up to?--something that will soon throw the town "into utter perplexity."After more than a week of entertainment and "passing the time, as they say, very pleasantly," he gets down to business--heading off to call on some landowners. More pleasantries ensue before Chichikov reveals his bizarre plan. He''d like to buy the souls of peasants who have died since the last census. The first landowner looks carefully to see if he''s mad, but spots no outward signs. In fact, the scheme is innovative but by no means bonkers. Even though Chichikov will be taxed on the supposed serfs, he will be able to count them as his property and gain the reputation of a gentleman owner. His first victim is happy to give up his souls for free--less tax burden for him. The second, however, knows Chichikov must be up to something, and the third has his servants rough him up. Nonetheless, he prospers.Dead Soulsis a feverish anatomy of Russian society (the book was first published in 1842) and human wiles. Its author tosses off thousands of sublime epigrams--including, "However stupid a fool''s words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man," and is equally adept at yearning satire: "Where is he," Gogol interrupts the action, "who, in the native tongue of our Russian soul, could speak to us this all-powerful word:forward? who, knowing all the forces and qualities, and all the depths of our nature, could, by one magic gesture, point the Russian man towards a lofty life?" Flannery O''Connor, another writer of dark genius, declared Gogol "necessary along with the light." Though he was hardly the first to envision property as theft, his blend of comic, fantastic moralism issui generis.--Kerry Fried--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
The New York Times Book Review,Ken Kalfus
Lively and funny ... Nabokov gleefully consigned all existing translations ofDead Soulsto the fire, save for Guerney''s.--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
Midwest Book Review
This newly revised, edited presentation of Gogol''s classic 1842 novel about a mysterious con man and his victims will enjoy the attention of new audiences who will find this version a welcome, revealing alternative to most. Still important for any high school literary collection.--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.
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