Мертвые души

This edition also includes stories. Cover abstract: "In Dead Souls, the author took such a great step that everything he has written so far seems weak and pale in comparison with them," Belinsky wrote about Gogol's immortal work. The plot "given" by Pushkin provided the basis for an adventurous and picaresque novel, but the traditional genre could not contain all the richness of Gogol's idea. "All Russia will appear in it," Gogol said about his future novel, which he later called a poem. Such a definition of a prose work is not accidental - the image of Russia created by the writer, the bird-troika, is so poetic. "Rus, where are you rushing? Give me an answer. Doesn't give an answer..."