[Pocket Edition] World Literature Masterpieces Library - Dead Souls (Pocket Edition)

Author: Gogol
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: Dead Souls is an "unparalleled work in the history of Russian literature" and a significant milestone in the journey of Russian literature toward originality and national identity. Its publication was like a thunderclap echoing across the vast sky, "shaking the entire Russia." Gogol was a renowned 19th-century Russian playwright and novelist. With his "extreme fidelity to life" in realism, vivid and lifelike typical characters, and a satirical style that combines laughter with tears, he became the "pioneer of the realistic school." Lu Xun highly praised Dead Souls, personally translating and self-funding the first Chinese translation. Dead Souls was included in the "Personal Ideal Book Collection" recommended by France's L'Express magazine. With his unique talent, Gogol described one soul after another in a bombastic manner through numerous peculiar details, elevating Dead Souls to the height of a magical epic. — Nabokov
No writer has ever possessed such talent as Gogol in vividly depicting the vulgarity of life, in powerfully outlining the banality of ordinary people, making all the easily overlooked trivialities laid bare before everyone's eyes. — Pushkin