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Dead Souls
David Stuart Davies looks at Nikolai Gogol's comic masterpiece ...
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DEAD SOULS by Nikolai Gogol
In this week's blog, David Stuart Davies looks at a comic Russian masterpiece. Read his blog here
About the book: Russia in the 1840s. There is a stranger in town, and he is behaving oddly. The unctuous Pavel Chichikov goes around the local estates buying up 'dead souls'. These are the papers relating to serfs who have died since the last census, but who remain on the record and still attract a tax demand. Chichikov is willing to relieve their owners of the tax burden by buying the titles for a song. What he does not say is that he then proposes to take out a huge mortgage against these fictitious citizens and buy himself a nice estate in Eastern Russia. Will he get away with it? Who will rumble him? Does this narrative contain a deeper message about Russia itself or the spiritual health of humanity?
ISBN: 9781840226379 R.R.P. £2.50
