- Dead Souls - Vladimir Pozner Nicolas Gogol Henri Mongault - Books

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  • Funnier than Don Quixote  

    Dead Souls (Paperback)
    The title of my review says it all. This picaresque novel will offer unforgettable moments reading (first part anyway). We dive in rural Russia and often laugh portraits of individuals rather extravagant and yet realistic. The images of that Russia w
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  • Incomplete but read on to learn from the master.  

    Dead Souls (Paperback)
    First part, the master narrator deploys its talent and brush characters like person. Second part, not his fault, a post mortem compilation. We will never know what he was getting at, and it's a shame. Goethe had time to write his Faust, not Gogol. Sn
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  • Before dostoievsky  

    Dead Souls (Paperback)
    Wow it's been a while since I had not read a classic. Dead souls have filled me. Funny, caustic and entertaining, we follow the wanderings of a person who travels a province in Russia in search of staff. By meeting, Gogol presents a nice vision of so
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  • Grand unfinished novel  

    Dead Souls (Paperback)
    Easy reading. Energetic dialogues. Colorful characters. Amusing critique of Russian society of the time. It is a pity that the work is unfinished because by the fragments of the second part and the author of the first ad in one guesses a progression
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  • Trading in souls  

    Dead Souls (Paperback)
    If you do need to read Russian novels that 3 of your life, I suggest you not to forget "Dead Souls". Through the tribulations picaresque Chichikov, a wheeler bourgeois who dreams of nobility, Gogol depicts some "Russian soul" alive one
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  • a powerful metaphor ...  

    Dead Souls (Paperback)
    We quickly realized that we are in social satire, the wanderings of our lovable rogue is mainly the (opportunity to tour extensively in Russia, which seems to caricature itself to infinity, all with this innate sense of theatricality and ferocious ow
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  • For a living soul  

    Dead Souls (Paperback)
    The subject of this book was provided to Gogol by Pushkin (as the subject of another masterpiece, The Inspector General) ... Here, a man countryside campaign going to buy dead souls: the souls of men dead but still alive according to the State becaus
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