Dead souls /Nikolai Gogol ; translated by Bernard Guilbert Guerney ; revised, edited and with an introduction by Susanne Fusso.
Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, 1809-1852.
Dead souls /Nikolai Gogol ; translated by Bernard Guilbert Guerney ; revised, edited and with an introduction by Susanne Fusso. - New Haven : Yale University Press, (c)1996. - 1 online resource (xv, 287 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls, 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 Dead Souls ever published. Long out of print, the Guerney translation of Dead Souls is now reissued. The text has been made more faithful to Gogol's original by removing passages that Guerney inserted from earlier drafts of Dead Souls. The text is accompanied by Susanne Fusso's introduction and by appendixes 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 Dead Souls.
9780300188103
Russian fiction--Translations into English.--19th century
English fiction--Translated from Russian.
Electronic Books.
PG3333 / .D433 1996
Dead souls /Nikolai Gogol ; translated by Bernard Guilbert Guerney ; revised, edited and with an introduction by Susanne Fusso. - New Haven : Yale University Press, (c)1996. - 1 online resource (xv, 287 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls, 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 Dead Souls ever published. Long out of print, the Guerney translation of Dead Souls is now reissued. The text has been made more faithful to Gogol's original by removing passages that Guerney inserted from earlier drafts of Dead Souls. The text is accompanied by Susanne Fusso's introduction and by appendixes 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 Dead Souls.
9780300188103
Russian fiction--Translations into English.--19th century
English fiction--Translated from Russian.
Electronic Books.
PG3333 / .D433 1996