by Nicolas Gogol · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070364251
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«Les Âmes mortes» is the satirical novel by Nikolai Gogol, published by Folio in paperback (512 pages, in French).
Chichikov, a middle-class official, travels through rural Russia buying from landowners the dead serfs still listed in the census, the «dead souls», to obtain a loan by passing them off as alive. The work is a satire of nineteenth-century Russian society that portrays the corruption, bureaucracy and moral misery of the nobility.
With a preface by Vladimir Pozner, translation by Henri Mongault and notes by Gustave Aucouturier. From the Folio classique collection. Work originally published in 1842; this edition is from 1973.
For readers of classic fiction and social satire, with an interest in nineteenth-century Russian literature.
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin.
