[Pocket Edition] World Literature Classics Library - Dead Souls

Author: (Russia) Gogol, translated by Zheng Hailing
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Publish Date: 2005-12-01
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 "founder of the realistic school." Lu Xun highly praised Dead Souls, personally translating and self-funding the first Chinese translation. Dead Souls was selected for the "Personal Ideal Book Collection" recommended by France's Le Monde de la Librairie. With his unique talent, Gogol described one soul after another in extravagant detail through numerous peculiar elements, elevating Dead Souls to the height of a magical epic. — Nabokov
No writer has ever possessed such talent as Gogol in so vividly depicting the vulgarity of life, in so powerfully outlining the ordinariness of the common man, that all the easily overlooked trivialities are laid bare before the eyes. — Pushkin