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He can then mortgage these “dead souls” and get rich. He seeks to do so not by conventional means, but by purchasing peasants who have died since the last census, and thus are only alive on paper. This guide is based on the 2017 English translation by Donald Rayfield, and all citations refer to the ebook location numbers.ĭead Souls is the tale of Chichikov, an itinerant mid-rank bureaucrat desperate to make his fortune. Gogol is regarded as one of Russia’s literary giants, alongside Pushkin, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy. Gogol’s fame as a satirist grew with his 1836 play, The Government Inspector, which, along with Gogol’s other plays is still regularly performed in theaters. In adulthood, he moved to the imperial capital of Saint Petersburg, where he worked as a minor civil servant and wrote his first collection of stories in 1831, Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, which depict Ukrainian life. Gogol was born in 1809 in what is now Ukraine, to a minor noble family.

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