totallytrucked 's review for:

Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol

4.0

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i finished this book and god was it funny! gogol was one hilarious guy. i suppose there would have been more things i understood if i was russian but unfortunately i am not. but the book was amazing still. however mr gogol has the habit to ramble on about something which i guess is some sort of russian lit thing but it gets kinda annoying. v good book tho, stan gogol.
oh i forgot! i was in a testing environment and the protagonist chichikov, when in a nice evening setting, mentioned that might like a wife and some "little chichikies" which was so funny to me i audibly giggled. caught me so off-guard, i loved it.
if you're trying to get into russian lit this is a place to start i think it's very accessible i am rather stupid and could understand it. oh also i read an edition which included the second volume of dead souls, which was in parts as gogol burned part of it or something. so if you have the second volume be warned some parts of it, including quite a few important plot points, are missing. one of my favorite painters ilya repin made a (frankly quite dramatic) painting of gogol burning the manuscript of dead souls, check that out if you want. good book thank you nikolai