{"product_id":"dead-souls-by-nikolai-gogol-9780300060997","title":"Dead Souls","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGogol's 1842 novel \u003ci\u003eDead Souls\u003c\/i\u003e, a comic masterpiece about a mysterious con man and his grotesque victims, is one of the major works of Russian literature. It was translated into English in 1942 by Bernard Guilbert Guerney; the translation was hailed by Vladimir Nabokov as \"an extraordinarily fine piece of work\" and is still considered the best translation of \u003ci\u003eDead Souls\u003c\/i\u003e ever published.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLong out of print, the Guerney translation of \u003ci\u003eDead Souls\u003c\/i\u003e is now reissued. The text has been made more faithful to Gogol's original by removing passages that Guerney inserted from earlier drafts of \u003ci\u003eDead Souls\u003c\/i\u003e. The text is accompanied by Susanne Fusso's introduction and by appendices that present excerpts from Guerney's translations of other drafts of Gogol's work and letters Gogol wrote around the time of the writing and publication of \u003ci\u003eDead Souls\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"I am delighted that Guerney's translation of \u003ci\u003eDead Souls\u003c\/i\u003e [is] available again. It is head and shoulders above all the others, for Guerney understands that to 'translate' Gogol is necessarily to undertake a poetic recreation, and he does so brilliantly.\" - Robert A. Maguire, Columbia University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"The Guerney translation of \u003ci\u003eDead Souls\u003c\/i\u003e is the only translation I know of that makes any serious attempt to approximate the qualities of Gogol's style—exuberant, erratic, 'Baroque,' bizarre.\" - Hugh McLean, University of California, Berkeley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A splendidly revised and edited edition of Bernard Guerney's classic English translation of Gogol's \u003ci\u003eDead Souls\u003c\/i\u003e. The distinguished Gogol scholar Susanne Fusso may have brought us as close as the English reader may ever expect to come to Gogol's masterpiece. No student, scholar, or general reader will want to miss this updated, refined version of one of the most delightful and sublime works of Russian literature.\" - Robert Jackson, Yale University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46998011478252,"sku":"9780300060997","price":40.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/22607713482294.jpg?v=1763204406","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/dead-souls-by-nikolai-gogol-9780300060997","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}