Die toten Seelen
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Die Geschichte folgt den Taten Pawel Iwanowitsch Tschitschikows, eines Herren mittleren Alters und mittlerer sozialer Schicht. Tschitschikow kommt in einem nicht namentlich genannten kleinen Städtchen an und versucht, sich schnell einen guten Namen zu machen, indem er die vielen unbedeutenden Beamten der Stadt beeindruckt. Trotz seiner begrenzten Mittel lebt er ein extravagantes Leben, um so Verbindungen zu schaffen, die ihm ein Leben mit Reichtum und Macht ermöglichen. Wenn er beispielsweise mit jedem in der Stadt gut Freund ist, kann er leichter seinen bizarren und mysteriösen Plan ausführen, in den Besitz „toter Seelen“ zu kommen.
Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
Nikolai Gogol was a Russian novelist and playwright born in what is now considered part of the modern Ukraine. By the time he was 15, Gogol worked as an amateur writer for both Russian and Ukrainian scripts, and then turned his attention and talent to prose. His short-story collections were immediately successful and his first novel, The Government Inspector, was well-received. Gogol went on to publish numerous acclaimed works, including Dead Souls, The Portrait, Marriage, and a revision of Taras Bulba. He died in 1852 while working on the second part of Dead Souls.
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- Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen4/5Satirical and funny and at times very profound.
- Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen5/5Brilliant satire that resonates not just in 19th Cent. Russia but just as well today.
- Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen4/5Dead Souls was published in 1842 and is a classic work, considered a mix of realism and symbolism. It is a tale of a man set on buying dead serfs. Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov travels around and the reader is introduced to a variety of people of Russia. I got that it was a satire and that there were layers of meaning here. The serfs were counted as "souls" but on another level, the souls refer to the dead souls of Gogol's characters. I enjoyed it and it is deserving of another read. It really is unfinished but you don't really notice that.
- Bewertung: 3 von 5 Sternen3/5Gelezen toen ik 17 was, volop in mijn "Russische periode"; was er helemaal weg van.
- Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen5/5The first two-thirds are better than the last third. Thoroughly enjoyed this book, though. What a master of depicting characters!
- Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen5/5This is absolutely brilliant humor. Gogol is better imo than even Cervantes. I have read all of Gogol's short stories and this surpass them all. Absolute hilarity at every turn and almost everyone gets made fun of. This is absolutely on my read again list. I read the Guerney translation. I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
- Bewertung: 3 von 5 Sternen3/5Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov, a former civil servant, having narrowly escaped a corruption charge heads out for the country with a new scheme to get rich quick. Chichikov, an amusing and often confused schemer, buys deceased serfs' names from landholders' poll tax lists hoping to mortgage them for profit. He arrives in a fine coach with his servants in the “provincial town of N.” At first he makes a great impression, but then as he goes to carry out his scheme, the provincial landowners as not as gullible as he’d hoped, and when word gets around about what he’s up to he must beat a hasty retreat. The humor in the meandering tale come in the interactions of Gogol’s characters. Chichikov himself, as Pevear says in the introduction is the embodiment of “Poshuost [POSHlust] is a well-rounded untranslatable whole made up of banality, vulgarity, and sham.” xxi
- Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen4/5I very much enjoyed this book. Gogol made me laugh out loud several times, and smile and chuckle on quite a few more occasions. His writing clearly demonstrates how intelligent and observant he was, along with his sharp wit. Gogol's style is very much his own, and I am eager to read more of his work.For some reason though, I had a very hard time getting sucked into this, even though I enjoyed it and never once thought anything truly negative about it. Hence my essentially leaving it aside for several months somewhat past the middle, before finally picking it back up and reading the last couple hundred pages. I really couldn't say why. I didn't find the pacing too slow, or really any fault with it. It just didn't grab me.That said, I would still highly recommend it to those who love a good classic. Even though it didn't grab me, it was surely an enjoyable read.
- Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen5/5I am sorry I had not read Gogol before now! His writing is a blend of Dostoevsky and Dickens. Absolutely hysterical characters manage to highlight a satiric view of Russian country life in the late 1800s. The protagonist, Chichikov, manages to persuade a variety of landowners to sell him the names of "dead souls" or workers who have died. Certainly Gogol was attempting to make a statement about the state of his nation and it is done with such satiric wit and wonderful prose! I think, perhaps, the best way to sum up this great piece of literature is by using a quote from one of the characters, "You must love us black, anyone can love us white." No person is blameless in this life!
- Bewertung: 3 von 5 Sternen3/5Gigol's work is essentially divided into two parts, and contains some of the best and worst aspects of 19th century Russian literature.The first section describes the exploits of Chichikov, a middle class Russian who gentleman arrives in a small town and attempts to purchase "dead souls" from local landowners as part of a scheme to live easily in the future. Part one is well written, interesting, and humorous as Gigol describes stereotypical landowners and officials with great style. Were the book to end here, I would have rated it very highly. Unfortunately, the section section, while continuing the story of Chichikov's adventures in a second town, is rambling, and mired in excessive detail and digression. One gets the impression that Gigol lost his direction and continued writing without a clear purpose.
- Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen4/5A very enjoyable read. I con man travels throughout Russia, meeting along the way fawning officials, an idealist egalitarian, an extreme economic liberal and your average everyday hollow shell whose sole existence is to impress others. So in other words, very much a story that fits right at home with today's society. Not much has changed in almost 200 years.
- Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen5/5In my effort to read more classics, Dead Souls was the perfect entry point back into the works of the Russian greats. Although I haven’t compared it to older translations, I found this one by Rayfield to be terrific. The language is easy to understand, but also manages to capture the poetics of prose wonderfully. Right off the bat, I was completely enchanted by the tone of the story as we follow our protagonist, Chichikov, around town as he goes about meeting with different landowners in a seemingly bizarre quest to buy their dead serfs, serfs whose deaths hadn’t yet been recorded by the tax authorities. Each encounter with these characters beats the previous encounter in terms of the surreal and absurd. We see how these landowners and government officials are silly, selfish, greedy, and corrupt, reflecting a society that’s become morally vapid. Gogol strings us along for a while before we find out the purpose of the dead souls, but instead of becoming impatient, I was happy to be strung along in a satire that has whimsy, a charming wink-wink tone, but also earnest exhortations to really examine the perilous path towards which society was headed.
Dead Souls in an unfinished manuscript and I was afraid that I’d be dissatisfied with the lack of true resolution at the end. Yet, even when the manuscript ends in the middle of a sentence, it luckily worked well. There’s a gathering in which a prince begins to issue a call to reform the nation, a kind of “call to arms.” The nation faces two choices (as does Chichikov, who gets punished and keeps getting second chances): to keep perpetuating the moral decay or turn over a new leaf. It seemed a very cinematic ending even though we don’t see which choice the nation (and Chichikov) opted for. - Bewertung: 2 von 5 Sternen2/5Gogol has some really important points to say but I found myself getting disinterested in it in parts despite it's potential to be a radical text.
- Bewertung: 3 von 5 Sternen3/5This is a book to appreciate with a historical lens in front of the brain. There are tons of comedy cliches, and the plot drifts into weird ventures, often times committing that old niggle of "showing vs. telling." But, it's entertaining and definitely an interesting insight into Russian society and human nature itself. It's good enough to read and inspires enough curiosity to read the incomplete second volume which runs 150 or so pages.
- Bewertung: 3 von 5 Sternen3/5It took me a while to chug through this one, but it definitely was worth a try. Some of the characters are hilariously ridiculous, which is what I think the highlight of the story is. I was kind of hoping for a slightly more exciting reason behind the collection of dead souls, but I did like the story overall.
- Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen4/5I was so much fun! Maybe it was not the best translation, but it still managed to put across the author's style.
I felt like Chichikov was the Russian Sutpen, but more confident and calmed.
Normally stories begin telling the hero's life, but this one ended with it.
Schade dass the author burnt the second part. - Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen5/5I loved this book, especially the end, for some reason. This book creates an inimitable atmosphere.
- Bewertung: 3 von 5 Sternen3/5Interesting without being captivating. Coming to the novel, I had expectations of satire and humor based on reading his short stories, but I had no idea how the book/story would take shape. It turns out that my expectations were met, as it was a very humorous and satirical volume with little in the way of story. Gogol's descriptions of the hypocrisy of the Russian nobility and life in provincial Russia are masterful. His observation of the reality beneath the surface was penetrating and scathing, and his manner of expressing it beautiful and poetic. That said, it got to be too much for me at times, and there wasn't enough plot to keep me really excited about picking the book up. I think it would have worked better as a short story, or perhaps in a larger context (for example, if he had completed the planned trilogy of which this book made up the first "Inferno" installment).
- Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen4/5When you think of Russian novels, you probably think of doorstop weight ones like War and Peace or Crime and Punishment. Dead Souls feels downright slim compared to those. And considerably more lighthearted as well. It took me a long time to read the book, but that's not Gogol's fault; I've just had my mind on something else lately and have found it hard to concentrate on much of anything. Still, I thoroughly enjoyed this story of Pavlov Chichikov and his quest to buy dead souls from local landowners.The characters in this book and the situations in which Chichikov finds himself are a hoot. I think my favorite was Nozdrev, the compulsive gambler and liar, who ends up being the one to expose the truth about Chichikov to the community.I'd definitely read Gogol again, but I may save him until the future when I can pay a little closer attention to his work.
- Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen5/5My reading history divides neatly along a pre-Gogol/post-Gogol line; this was the book that did it for me.
- Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen4/5Lovely cynical romp through serf-filled Russia, especially if you enjoy portraits of despicable people.
- Bewertung: 2 von 5 Sternen2/5Just like Tolstoy, Gogol seems to revel in torturing the reader with agrarian strategies, but the book is punctuated with so many wicked asides and hilarious vignettes - the drafts cheat was my favourite - that I ploughed ahead and finally managed to finish it. Unlike Gogol.
- Bewertung: 2 von 5 Sternen2/5Here we are presented with the russian people - and russian temperament - in all its variety. All the different people our main character visits and presents his remarkable idea. To buy dead souls. We are left to guess what's going on here. I liked the beginning of the tale - but the revelation in the end and it's conclusion is not very surprising or rewarding. Not a book I will read again.
- Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen4/5A great idea that provides us with an unpredictable story both funny and tragic. Great character studies and lots of good 'stories within the story'.
- Bewertung: 1 von 5 Sternen1/5Pt. I good; Pt. II in fragments, unrewarding, pointless--perhaps worth another try since it's been 25 years since I read it
- Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen5/5At times sentimental, philosopical, melancholy, and hilarious, the book follows the adventures of Chichikov, a scoundrel who wants to become a man of class and stature. So, he begins a scheme to buy up the "dead souls" --those peasants who have died but whose landowners have not yet reported as dead--of the barons and lords in the Russian countryside, then passing them off as living, thus making Chichikov a landowner with many tenants. Hilarity ensues. Is it legal to sell dead souls? How much are they worth? Nothing? A great deal? This book is unfinished--Gogol was working on it when he died--and there are many holes and gaps towards the end, but it's a great book. Sometimes it's published as "Dead Souls"--but it's not dark at all. Gogol's gloomy thoughtfulness and spiritual morbidity come through sometimes, but in it he includes much hearty laughter--the sort that never issued from his own mouth during his lonely, miserable life.
- Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen5/5The first book of "Dead Souls" is picaresque and wonderful, but the remnants of the second book are just outstanding. The depth displayed in the fragments of Book 2 elevate Gogol from a cheeky, vicious satirist to a real humanitarian artist.
- Bewertung: 3 von 5 Sternen3/5Dead Souls suffers from being so incomplete and disjointed but the first half at least offers an amusing plot and some wonderfully crafted characters which together give an insight into Russian society at the time.
- Bewertung: 3 von 5 Sternen3/5The novel affords fascinating insights into life in rural Russia in the 19th Century. The plot is amusing but even to outline it would be to give away too much.
- Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen5/5Imagine your a Russion nobleman but you're poor, you can't afford to own people. But you must own people in order to "count". So what you do is buy the papers of dead farmers, promising the previous owner to properly take care of the paperwork. At one point, a lady gets suspicious, suspecting that he makes money from these dead farmers, so she refuses to sell him her absolutely worthless dead farmers papers.The plot is brilliant, the writing is entertaining like most older Russion novels.