3.9
Klassiekers
Gogol’s great Russian classic is the Pickwick Papers of Russian Literature. It takes a sharp but humorous look at life in all its strata, but especially the devious complexities in the country with its landowners and serfs. We are introduced to Chichikov, a businessman who, in order to trick the tax authorities, buys up dead ‘souls’ or serfs whose names still appear on the government census. Despite being a dealer in phantom crimes and paper ghosts, he is the most beguiling of Gogol’s characters. Gogol’s obsession with attempting to display ‘the untold riches of the Russian soul’ eventually led him to madness, religious mania and death. Dismissed by him as merely ‘a pale introduction to the great epic poem which is taking shape in my mind’, Dead Souls is the culmination of Gogol’s genius.
© 2014 Naxos Audiobooks (Luisterboek): 9789629545345
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 1 mei 2014
3.9
Klassiekers
Gogol’s great Russian classic is the Pickwick Papers of Russian Literature. It takes a sharp but humorous look at life in all its strata, but especially the devious complexities in the country with its landowners and serfs. We are introduced to Chichikov, a businessman who, in order to trick the tax authorities, buys up dead ‘souls’ or serfs whose names still appear on the government census. Despite being a dealer in phantom crimes and paper ghosts, he is the most beguiling of Gogol’s characters. Gogol’s obsession with attempting to display ‘the untold riches of the Russian soul’ eventually led him to madness, religious mania and death. Dismissed by him as merely ‘a pale introduction to the great epic poem which is taking shape in my mind’, Dead Souls is the culmination of Gogol’s genius.
© 2014 Naxos Audiobooks (Luisterboek): 9789629545345
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 1 mei 2014
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24 sep 2017
This is a good audio version, appropriately narrated, with a cheerful tune at appropriate intervals as a welcome break to the sometimes coarse and morally suspect but ever colourful characters of rural life in 19th century Russia. You may have to wait for your ears to become attuned to the foreign names (confusing at first) and become acclimatised to the time and place but then you will be in for an ironic piece of writing around a bizarre plot to buy up dead serfs (i.e. souls). I can’t say however, that I am blown away by the “untold riches of the Russian soul” as they are displayed here in a varied collection of pretty unsavory, uncouth and rogueish character traits and fairly rough living. A classical must-read (and probably re-listen or re-read) by any standard.
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