Dead Souls

Gogol called "Dead Souls" with a poem, thereby declaring a high system and the grand scale of his cherished work. Meanwhile, the readers were proposed by a comic story about how the outwardly well -intentioned and ordinary gentleman of the middle hand (in a hidden essence, almost Napoleon) flows an incredible scam, fooling some primitive “existence”, staggered with others and suddenly receiving a crushing rebuff from the third, Not at all shining with the mind and virtues. Upon the release of the first volume of the poem, part of the public read it as an evil mockery of the eternal country inhabited by people without souls, but for other readers, the composition of Gogol became a revelation of the power of invisible saints and heroes, the prophecy of the future greatness of Russia and Russian man. There are few books in European literature that can compete with the first volume of Dead Souls with poetic perfection, but Gogol considered a part of the poem a porch attached to the public, which was attached to the public, which was planned to be built in colossal sizes. ” One and a half, readers of different warehouses are trying to comprehend, which should turn out to be the Needle of Chichikov, who swayed in a cozy chase and where Russia rushes. Try you too.

The accompanying article by Andrei Nemzer

Andrey Semenovich Nemzer (born 1957) - candidate of philological sciences, ordinary professor of the school of philology of the National Research University "Higher School of Economics" (Moscow), author of eleven books and many articles on Russian literature of the XIX - early XXI century, laureate of the prize Government of the Russian Federation (2015)