Dead Souls 12 🔥 By Nikolai Gogol FULL Audiobook

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Dead Souls. By Nikolai Gogol. Full Audiobook • Dead Souls is a novel by Nikolai Gogol, published in 1842. The story follows the adventures of Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov, a landless social-climbing mid-rank bureaucrat who seeks to make his fortune by purchasing peasants who have died since the last census, and thus are only alive on paper. He can then mortgage these dead souls and get rich. The novel is an absurdist social satire of imperial Russia before the emancipation of the serfs, especially the foibles and customs of the Russian nobility. The work is structured in part as an analog to Dante's Inferno. • The novel is divided into two parts. In the first part, Chichikov travels through the Russian countryside, visiting various landowners and purchasing their dead serfs. The second part of the novel is unfinished, ending mid-sentence, as Gogol burned the original conclusion to the second part before his death in 1852. • Gogol's intrusive, digressive narrator offers commentary on each character, the text's structure, and Chichikov's fitness as a protagonist. The portraits of nobles who speak French more than Russian, daydream rather than become adequate estate managers, and are so blinded by rank and status they cannot detect a con artist, made the work an instant classic. It cemented Gogol's reputation as a deft and humorous social commentator. • The novel is considered one of the world's finest satires. It is a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, and SuperSummary offers high-quality study guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. The guide is based on the 2017 English translation by Donald Rayfield. • Gogol was born in 1809 in what is now Ukraine, to a minor noble family. 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'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. Gogol is regarded as one of Russia's literary giants, alongside Pushkin, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy. • I hope this summary helps you understand the book better!. • More: Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls, Russian literature • 19th century, epic poem in prose, novel in verse • poshlost, serfs, property registers • landowners, chattel, moral • spiritual, middle-class pretentiousness, fake significance • philistinism • 00:00:00 Introduction • 00:14:06 Author’s Preface To The First Portion Of This Work • 00:22:22 PART 1. 1 • 00:54:52 2 • 01:48:40 3 • 02:43:58 4 • 03:54:41 5 • 04:43:28 6 • 05:16:50 7 • 06:03:55 8 • 06:46:13 9 • 07:09:22 10 • 07:38:41 11 • 09:03:53 PART 2. 1 • 10:17:24 2

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