Dead Souls (Norton Critical Editions)

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Few literary works have been so variously interpreted as Nikolai Gogolx2019;s enduring comic masterpiece, Dead Souls.This Norton Critical Edition reprints the text of the acclaimed George Reavey translation, which has been fully annotated for undergraduate readers. "Backgrounds" contains not only Gogolx2019;s correspondence relevant to the novel but also the four formal letters that set forth his views on the work. The editor has also included a useful chronology of Gogolx2019;s life and an invaluable table of ranks in czarist Russia. A wide range of criticism includes Robert Maguirex2019;s general overview of Gogolx2019;s criticism; two nineteenth-century Russian appraisals; Donald Fangerx2019;s brilliant essay; and a broad spectrum of twentieth-century Russian critical opinion. It features, as well, essays by Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson. The Russian essays have been translated specially for this Norton Critical Edition. A Selected Bibliography directs readers to resources for further study.