Nikolai Gogol

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Данное издание знаменитого произведения Николая Васильевича Гоголя включает в себя, помимо первого тома, сохранившиеся главы второго тома, более двухсот поясняющих сносок-комментариев, а также около трехсот иллюстраций. У большинства современных читателей с героями «Мертвых душ» прочно ассоциируются образы, созданные в XIX веке художниками А. А. Агиным и П. М. Боклевским, и мало кому известны те замечательные иллюстрации, которые украсили роман, вышедший в 1900 году в издательстве А. Маркса. Вот что писал сам издатель в предисловии: «Предоставить выполнение всех рисунков одному художнику оказалось немыслимым: работа затянулась бы на десятки лет. Кроме того, при значительном количестве иллюстраций появилось бы некоторое однообразие в манере исполнения. Поэтому работа была разделена между несколькими художниками. Пейзаж был предоставлен гг. Бажину и Хохрякову, а жанр — гг. Андрееву, Афанасьеву, Быстренину, Далькевичу, Козачинскому, Маньковскому, Пирогову, г-же Самокиш-Судковской и г. Соломко. Общее редактирование иллюстраций взяли на себя гг. Гнедич и Далькевич. С искренней любовью отнеслись художники к своей задаче и в течение нескольких лет трудились над иллюстрациями, причем каждый выбрал эпизоды, наиболее подходящие к сущности своего дарования».

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Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol; Susanne Fusso (Editor); Bernard Guilbert Guerney (Translator)

Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol

Christopher English

Robert A. Maguire

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A Poem

With its rich and ebullient language, ironic twists and startling juxtapositions, Dead Souls (1842) stands as one of the most dazzling and poetic masterpieces of the nineteenth century. This brilliant new translation by Christopher English is complemented by a superb introductory essay by the pre-eminent Gogol scholar, Robert Maguire.

Dead Souls

Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls, a comic masterpiece about a mysterious con man and his grotesque victims, is one of the major works of Russian literature. It was translated into English in 1942 by Bernard Guilbert Guerney; the translation was hailed by Vladimir Nabokov as "an extraordinarily fine piece of work" and is still considered the best translation of Dead Souls ever published. Long out of print, the Guerney translation of Dead Souls is now reissued. The text has been made more faithful to Gogol's original by removing passages that Guerney inserted from earlier drafts of Dead Souls. The text is accompanied by Susanne Fusso's introduction and by appendices that present excerpts from Guerney's translations of other drafts of Gogol's work and letters Gogol wrote around the time of the writing and publication of Deal Souls. "I am delighted that Guerney's translation of Dead Souls [is] available again. It is head and shoulders above all the others, for Guerney understands that to 'translate' Gogol is necessarily to undertake a poetic recreation, and he does so brilliantly."—Robert A. Maguire, Columbia University "The Guerney translation of Dead Souls is the only translation I know of that makes any serious attempt to approximate the qualities of Gogol's style—exuberant, erratic, 'Baroque,' bizarre."—Hugh McLean, University of California, Berkeley "A splendidly revised and edited edition of Bernard Guerney's classic English translation of Gogol's Dead Souls. The distinguished Gogol scholar Susanne Fusso may have brought us as close as the English reader may ever expect to come to Gogol's masterpiece. No student, scholar, or general reader will want to miss this updated, refined version of one of the most delightful and sublime works of Russian literature."—Robert Jackson, Yale University

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Category - Non Fiction / Art

Format - Paperback

Condition - Excellent

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