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. The text has been made more faithful to Gogol's original by removing passages that Guerney inserted from earlier drafts of Dead Souls. Long out of print, the Guerney translation of Dead Souls is now reissued. Guerney, Bernard Guilbert translator Dead Souls. 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. Guerney, Bernard Guilbert translator and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. 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. Gogols 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.

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