Notes from NYRB Classics
Readers should not then blame the author if the personages who have appeared so far are not to their taste; the fault is Chichikov’s, since he is in charge here, and wherever he decides to go, we are compelled to follow.
—Nikolai Gogol, rejecting responsibility for his poshlost hero Chichikov, in Donald Rayfield’s translation of Dead Souls.
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