Dead Souls
ΠΡΡΡΠ²ΡΠ΅ Π΄ΡΡΠΈ
1969In "Dead Souls" Gogol posed the most pressing and painful questions of modern life. The very title of the poem had enormous revealing power; it carried, according to Herzen, βsomething terrifyingβ, βhe could not name it otherwise; not the revisionists - dead souls, but all these Nozdryovs. Manilovs and all those like them are dead souls, and we meet them at every step..."