Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volkhonsky black history month Cecily's privileged upbringing makes her

Cecily's privileged upbringing makes her oblivious to the havoc that is being wreaked around her

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After Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volkhonsky black history month Cecily's privileged upbringing makes herSince its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality, vulgarity, and pomp. As Gogol's wily antihero, Chichikov, combs the back country wheeling and dealing for "dead souls" deceased serfs who still represent money to anyone sharp enough to trade in them we