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Dead Souls (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics) by Nikolai Gogol, Susanne Fusso (transl.), Bernard Guilbert Guernsey (ed.) is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls , a comic masterpiece about a mysterious con man and his grotesque victims, is one of the major works of Russian literature. It was translated into English in 1942 by Bernard Guilbert Guerney; the translation was hailed by Vladimir Nabokov as "an extraordinarily fine piece of work" and is still considered the best translation of Dead Souls ever published. Long out of print, the Guerney translation of Dead Souls is now reissued. The text has been made more faithful to Gogol's original by removing passages that Guerney inserted from earlier drafts of Dead Souls . The text is accompanied by Susanne Fusso's introduction and by appendices that present excerpts from Guerney's translations of other drafts of Gogol's work and letters Gogol wrote around the time of the writing and publication of Deal Souls . "I am delighted that Guerney's translation of Dead Souls [is] available again. It is head and shoulders above all the others, for Guerney understands that to 'translate' Gogol is necessarily to undertake a poetic recreation, and he does so brilliantly."—Robert A. Maguire, Columbia University "The Guerney translation of Dead Souls is the only tran

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Author

Nikolai Gogol, Susanne Fusso (transl.), Bernard Guilbert Guernsey (ed.)

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300060997

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.98 / 5 (161 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14