promised, so I give a review yet crisp, only written. Although not the evening and at night, but always something:)
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I normally like to know something about is reading the book - an outline of the story (If it's a well known and belongs to the canon of world literature, it is not at all difficult - such information is the same man smashing into the ears), or the author. Each writer is with something known and known immediately what to expect when the item. Taking a favor, Dead Souls, "by M. Gogol had any of this information. The book was lying somewhere on a shelf in his white and niebogatej the cover illustrations. Nothing ... This white paper, and my knowledge of Gogolu - also niebogata. Do something led me to reach for? Besides simple curiosity, it's probably nothing, and how good it is that man sometimes something interests you, see for yourself!
Somewhere in this book echoes a certain amount of mystery. We meet the hero, who wanders around town, N., and sometimes in the villages and collect souls. Just buy them, and often long to haggling, it strikes a settlement. Is not it strange? Without a doubt, however, surprising! Like this story realistic, what is more - positivist, but in the beginning, before we delve further, we feel that we read some fantasy. Maybe not a classic, but some of it similar to the threads.
Only at the end we'll find out what motivated by the main hero and why buying the souls of all those people (and probably guess is really a lot).
Start slowly walked to me and how I made a mistake putting this book! There is in it is true that many of the descriptions, but all this is probably an advantage. It should therefore sit down to,, Dead Souls, "and read them without being distracted too much. Something that distinguishes this book, and I liked the Narrator is talking with the reader. The writer turns directly to the customer and puts it in the details of the story, or draws attention to something.
hero has a purpose - to gather a large number of the souls of dead people and therefore visited by different people. Several chapters are descriptions of the various houses, where the prevailing customs, but above all people. How many are deeply set in the pages of this book, so many biographies. It is grouchy and crafty man, a miser with a large fortune, but still collecting garbage and assembling them at home. On the occasion arises overflowing and plenteous in detail the image of Russian society. Each house or neighborhood, are fully described and illustrated in such a way that when the reader is only harder wysili, will see through the eyes of imagination, these images on the walls, portraits, cobwebs, windows, tables and similar things.
controversial book because of the name (often negative or simply mocking) of Russian society. Gogol deals with the officials, the aristocracy, but also the simple villagers. Further exacerbating the situation through dialogue with the customer. And if I as a Pole or someone belonging to another nationality is not something hurt, or at least does not cause outrage, a Russian of that time could feel disgusted. Why? Because unless we do not like to read about its faults, is not it?
This novel is the first part of it, the trilogy ", but has not been formed. Gogol approached many times to write the next part, but burn the manuscripts. Omnipresent criticism, the crisis of his views, and greater religiosity (such as those factors listed in the publisher's afterword the book) meant that did not finish his work. A pity, because he wanted to create something along the lines,, Mary Comedy by Dante, and left behind only some of which might be, hell. "
I will not say whether this book is light or heavy, because everyone has their tastes. I read a little (except a few fragments can), and even pleasant, but with my own ears I heard that Gogol's hard to read. Well, like I said, everyone has their own opinion. However, it is read and check yourself: if Gogol is easy, or maybe on the contrary?
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Illustrations come successively with
1) http://www.gandalf.com.pl / b / dead-souls-B /
2) http://ksionshka.wordpress.com/2010/11/21/martwe-dusze-mikolaj-gogol/
3) http : / / www.mtj.pl/index.php?adm=zapowiedzi
4) http://www.cytaty.info/autor/mikolajgogol/1
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