1. weatherthisdanger: “Now the landowner we visited had good people. I like to have a talk, if people are good; we’re always friends, fine friends, with good people: drink tea, have a bite to eat—I’m very happy to do that if people are good. Anyone will pay respect to good people.” ― Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls For NYRB’s Classics and Coffee Club

    weatherthisdanger:

    “Now the landowner we visited had good people. I like to have a talk, if people are good; we’re always friends, fine friends, with good people: drink tea, have a bite to eat—I’m very happy to do that if people are good. Anyone will pay respect to good people.”

    ― Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls

    For NYRB’s Classics and Coffee Club

  2. And our new translation of Gogol’s Dead Souls goes on sale today!

    Why read this translation and not another? Here’s your answer:

    Donald Rayfield’s vigorous new translation corrects the mistakes and omissions of earlier versions while capturing the vivid speech rhythms of the original. It also offers a fuller text of the unfinished second part of the book by combining material from Gogol’s two surviving drafts into a single compelling narrative.