![]() ![]() ![]() Vogue places its author somewhere between Cervantes and Le Sage. ![]() Dostoieffsky goes so far as to bestow this tribute upon an earlier work by the same author, a short story entitled The Cloak this idea has been wittily expressed by another compatriot, who says: “We have all issued out of Gogol’s Cloak.”ĭead Souls, which bears the word “Poem” upon the title page of the original, has been generally compared to Don Quixote and to the Pickwick Papers, while E. ![]() That amazing institution, “the Russian novel,” not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil’evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpieces that have come since have grown out of it, like the limbs of a single tree. Accents and diphthongs have also been left out.ĭead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. Where the text notes that pages are missing from the “original”, this refers to the Russian original, not the translation.Īll the foreign words were italicised in the original, a style not preserved here. The book this was typed from contains a complete Part I, and a partial Part II, as it seems only part of Part II survived the adventures described in the introduction. Petersburg and later an appointment at the university. Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, born at Sorochintsky, Russia, on 31st March 1809. ![]()
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