Dead Souls

11 hrs. 32 min.

Classics

Author Nikolai Gogol

Narrator Ivan Litvinov

Description

Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol is a famous Russian writer whose works are part of the golden fund of Russian literature and are an unchanged component of the school curriculum in literature. His novels, stories, and plays have had countless stage productions and film adaptations.

One of his strongest works is the book “Dead Souls.” Only the first volume was published; the second, almost finished, was destroyed by the author. The poem’s plot, as Gogol himself designated the genre of the book, is the adventures of an adventurer who, in the era of serfdom, buys peasants “on paper” for cheap from landowners—peasants who are actually dead, but who, until the next census, are still considered alive. Under these “revision souls,” the clever swindler intends to obtain land from the state. The writer presents in grand scope character types and phenomena that are unfortunately still relevant in modern Russia. Listen to the audiobook in the brilliant performance of the master of artistic narration, Ivan Litvinov.