Dead Souls: A Comprehensive Illustrated Guide
14.99 €
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Dead Souls: A Comprehensive Illustrated Guide
14.99 €
This edition is based on a brief yet complete retelling of the great poem, revealing to the reader the whole of Russia—immense, contradictory, and vibrant. Here are dusty roads, abandoned estates, provincial officials, and landowners immersed in sweet slumber. As Herzen rightly observed, "This is a case history written by the hand of a master."
Reading Dead Souls is like a long journey in Chichikov's rickety carriage along country roads. Landscapes alternate—flat steppes and uneven destinies, dreary provincial towns, villages where time stands still, and people in whose lives the grotesque coexists with the truth, the humorous with the bitter. But look more closely, and Chichikov's journey becomes a pilgrimage through the living fabric of Russia. Creating a multidimensional and visual image of Gogol's world is one of the main goals of this illustrated guide.
It offers no dry analysis or academic discourse: only the hero's journey and visuals that allow us to see Dead Souls through the eyes of the author and his contemporaries. The guide is intended for schoolchildren and anyone who seeks to get closer to Gogol's world—not to replace the original, but to make it more understandable and relatable. It will also be of interest to those who return to the poem again and again, discovering new meanings within it.
Reading Dead Souls is like a long journey in Chichikov's rickety carriage along country roads. Landscapes alternate—flat steppes and uneven destinies, dreary provincial towns, villages where time stands still, and people in whose lives the grotesque coexists with the truth, the humorous with the bitter. But look more closely, and Chichikov's journey becomes a pilgrimage through the living fabric of Russia. Creating a multidimensional and visual image of Gogol's world is one of the main goals of this illustrated guide.
It offers no dry analysis or academic discourse: only the hero's journey and visuals that allow us to see Dead Souls through the eyes of the author and his contemporaries. The guide is intended for schoolchildren and anyone who seeks to get closer to Gogol's world—not to replace the original, but to make it more understandable and relatable. It will also be of interest to those who return to the poem again and again, discovering new meanings within it.
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