Dead Souls
Feb. 23rd, 2011 08:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloI've just finished Gogol's Dead Souls. It's a determinedly eccentric novel- with a cast of amusing shits- among them a hero- or anti-hero- who is only properly introduced to us in the final chapter. If Gogol had been an English writer he would have been illustrated by Cruikshank. He reminds me a little of Sterne and a little of early Dickens.
