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- Published: 15 July 2012
- ISBN: 9781590173763
- Imprint: NY Review Books
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 432
- RRP: $35.00
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- Published: 15 July 2012
- ISBN: 9781590173763
- Imprint: NY Review Books
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 432
- RRP: $35.00
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"Arguably Russian literature's best-loved novel, whose characters are still considered emblematic." --Gillian Slovo, The Independent on Sunday "a terrifying, absurdist adventure -- unfinished, which seems fitting" --Shirley Abbott "The most original novel of 1842, Nicolai Gogol's Dead Souls, has achieved a magnificent rebirth in 2008 through Donald Rayfield's superb new translation. Rayfield's translation is one that Vladimir Nabokov would unreservedly admire and is accompanied by dozens of superb, hitherto unseen illustrations by Marc Chagall. A big, beautiful book and a mould-breaking classic reinvigorated." --William Boyd, Guardian "New English words for Gogol's masterpiece have now been found by Donald Rayfield, whose fresh translation is notable also for its artwork -- the long-neglected etchings to Dead Souls made by Marc Chagall once he, too, had left Russia." --Oliver Ready, Times Literary Supplement (praise for the illustrated edition)