Description
A bold attempt at solving the riddle of Gogol's novel Dead Souls. Gogol constructed the novel strictly according to a moral pattern. The novel thus proves to be a true descendant of medieval romance with its inseparable interrelation between ethics and epics.
Author: Urs Heftrich
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Published: 01/25/2022
Pages: 294
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d
ISBN13: 9781644697627
ISBN10: 1644697629
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Russian & Soviet
- Literary Criticism | Comparative Literature
- Literary Criticism | Modern | 19th Century
About the Author
Urs Heftrich holds the Chair of Slavic Literatures at the University of Heidelberg. He is the author of four monographs. As an editor and prize-winning translator of Czech and Russian poetry, he has been mediating Slavic Literatures in Germany since 1989.