CHICHIKOV HAS 1,000,000 TWITTER FOLLOWERS. 999,985 OF THEM ARE DEAD.
— Elif Batuman (@BananaKarenina) May 22, 2012
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.
