The second volume of Dead Souls. Intentions and conjectures.
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The burned second and still unwritten third volumes of Nikolai Gogol's poem "Dead Souls" are one of the most mysterious pages in the history of Russian literature, giving rise to a rich mythology that continues to reproduce itself to this day. Based on memoirs and archival data, Ekaterina Dmitrieva reconstructs various aspects of this story: from the emergence of the author's idea to the burning of the poem and the almost detective-like discovery of an early draft of five chapters from the second volume six months after Gogol's death. The author discusses the presumed sources of the continuation of "Dead Souls," as well as the restoration of lost chapters, made possible by the memories of contemporaries who heard Gogol read the full version of the second part. Separate sections of the book discuss mystifications and stylizations that emerged in the 19th-21st centuries, facilitated by the disappearance of Gogol's manuscript and a reevaluation of the famous thesis about Dante's "Divine Comedy" supposedly inspiring the three-part architecture of "Dead Souls." Ekaterina Dmitrieva is a Doctor of Philological Sciences, head of the Department of Russian Classical Literature at the Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a member of the academic group for the publication of the Complete Works and Letters of N. V. Gogol, and a leading researcher at the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Author:
Author:Ekaterina Dmitrieva
Cover:
Cover:hardcover
Category:
- Category:History & Geography
- Category:Fiction
Dimensions:
Dimensions:22.6x14.7x2.4 cm
Series:
Series:Scientific Library
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-4448-2133-6
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