A mysterious stranger named Chichikov arrives in a small provincial
Russian town and proceeds to visit a succession of landowners,
making each of them an unusual and somewhat macabre proposition. He
offers to buy the rights to the dead serfs who are still registered
on the landowner's estate, thus reducing their liability for taxes.
It is not clear what Chichikov's intentions are with the dead serfs
he is purchasing, and despite his attempts to ingratiate himself,
his strange behaviour arouses the suspicions of everyone in the
town.A biting satire of social pretensions and pomposity, Dead
Souls has been revered since its original publication in 1842 as
one of the funniest and most brilliant novels of nineteenth-century
Russia. Its unflinching and remorseless depiction of venality in
Russian society is a lasting tribute to Gogol's comic genius.
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