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Dead Souls
Gogol builds a grotesque road story around a scheme to acquire dead serfs on paper, revealing vanity, bureaucracy, greed and social performance
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Dead souls
Dead Souls follows Chichikov, a charming and mysterious schemer traveling through provincial Russia with an unusual plan: he wants to purchase the names of deceased serfs who still appear on official records. Because landowners are taxed according to census lists rather than current reality
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