Dead Souls

1842 · Book · satirical fiction, picaresque novel, satirical novel

Nikolai Gogol

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Dead Souls is a novel by Nikolai Gogol, first published in 1842, and widely regarded as an exemplar of 19th-century Russian literature. The novel chronicles the travels and adventures of Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov and the people whom he encounters. These people typify the Russian middle aristocracy of the time. Gogol himself saw his work as an "epic poem in prose", and within the book characterised it as a "poem in prose". Gogol intended the novel to be the first part of a three-volume work, but burned the manuscript of the second part shortly before his death. Modern editions of Dead Souls include what survives from Part Two, as reconstructed by editors from Gogol's notebooks. Although the novel ends in mid-sentence, it is regarded by some as complete in the extant form. The novel is a satire of 19th-century Russian bureaucracy.

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Type: Book
Release date: January 1, 1842
Genres: satirical fiction, picaresque novel, satirical novel
Created by: Nikolai Gogol
Countries: Russian Empire, Russia