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Dead Souls
Dead Souls
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August 1, 2020
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Antonomasia
Nov 28, 2019 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: 2019, 19th-century, 1001-books, ukraine, divine-comedy-booklovers, russia, guardian-1000
5 stars for the B.G. Guerney translation (revised version), Yale UP.
I also read Part II in Donald Rayfield's translation (NYRB Classics / Alma Classics).

'Exuberant', 'panoramic' and 'state of the nation' are attributes that come up time and again among my favourite novels, so it's hardly surprising I liked this. Dead Souls, in the Guerney translation, is also one of the funniest 19th century novels I've read. Diary of a Nobody was the funniest; I wasn't as keen on Three Men in a Boat as some peo ...more
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Sara
May 13, 2017 rated it did not like it
Extremely repetitive and laborious. It is like hearing the same joke told over and over until the person says "knock, knock" and you just want to say "go to hell." ...more
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