Gogol's Crime and Punishment - An essay in the interpretation of Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls (Hardcover)

This monograph is nothing less than a bold attempt at solving the riddle of Gogol's novel Dead Souls that even inspired a staging of Dead Souls at Schauspiel Stuttgart. Heftrich gives a comprehensive, coherent answer to the question of the novel's meaning by meticulously laying bare its structure. The first part of the monograph is dedicated to one section of Gogol's novel that has been neglected by virtually all critics - a clue that leads to a strictly ethical reading of Gogol's epic. Gogol, as it emerges, constructed Dead Souls strictly according to a moral pattern. It is amazing to discover how flawlessly Dead Souls is built in this regard. The novel thus proves to be a true descendant of medieval romance with its inseparable interrelation between ethics and epics.

General

Imprint:	Academic Studies Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Studies in Russian and Slavic Literatures, Cultures, and History
Release date:	February 2022
Authors:	Urs Heftrich
Translators:	Joseph Swann
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - Laminated cover
Pages:	294
ISBN-13:	978-1-64469-762-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General
LSN:	1-64469-762-9
Barcode:	9781644697627

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