Dead Souls
- 中文名:
- 死魂灵
- 类型:
- 小说经典
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Dead Souls (Russian: Мёртвые души) by Nikolai Gogol, Ukrainian-born Russian writer, was first published in 1842, and is one of the most prominent works of 19th-century Russian literature. Gogol himself saw it as an "epic poem in prose", and within the book as a "novel in verse". Despite supposedly completing the trilogy's second part, Gogol destroyed it shortly before his death. Although the novel ends in mid-sentence (like Sterne's Sentimental Journey), it is usually regarded as complete in the extant form.
长篇小说,俄国作家果戈理的代表作。原计划创作三部,由于后期创作力的衰退和思想局限,他创作的第二部于1852年被迫自己焚烧,第三部未及动笔。仅完成并且流传下来的只有第一部。《死魂灵》是俄国批判现实主义文学发展的基石,也是果戈理的现实主义创作发展的顶峰。别林斯基高度赞扬它是“俄国文坛上划时代的巨著”,是一部“高出于俄国文学过去以及现在所有作品之上的”,“既是民族的,同时又是高度艺术的作品。”
小说描写一个投机钻营的骗子——六等文官乞乞科夫买卖死魂灵(俄国的地主们将他们的农奴叫做“魂灵”)的故事。乞乞科夫来到某市先用一个多星期的时间打通了上至省长下至建筑技师的大小官员的关系,而后去市郊向地主们收买已经死去但尚未注销户口的农奴,准备把他们当做活的农奴抵押给监管委员会,骗取大笔押金。他走访了一个又一个地主,经过激烈的讨价还价,买到一大批死魂灵,当他高高兴兴地凭着早已打通的关系迅速办好了法定的买卖手续后,其罪恶勾当被人揭穿,检察官竟被谣传吓死,乞乞科夫只好匆忙逃走。
《死魂灵》的发表震撼了整个俄国,在作者锋利的笔下,形形色色贪婪愚昧的地主,腐化堕落的官吏以及广大农奴的悲惨处境等可怕的现实,揭露得淋漓尽致。从而以其深刻的思想内容,鲜明的批判倾向和巨大的艺术力量成为俄国批判现实主义文学的奠定杰作,是俄国文学,也是世界文学中讽刺作品的典范。
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